Your American Icon
This fall we’re airing nine new American Icons episodes and we need your ideas for the tenth. Listeners have submitted dozens of suggestions ? including Bruce Springsteen’s ballad “Thunder Road” and Willa Cather’s novel My Antonia. What great creative work would you nominate?
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