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- ↑ Yoe, Mary Ruth, "Everybody's a critic". University of Chicago Magazine , February, 2004 (96:3). Listing for Vision of Utopia at the end of the UCM article appears to be incorrect; the corrected listing in this Wiki article is based on Amazon listing, picture of book cover at Amazon, and internal Wiki links.
