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- ↑ "The Lecture by Professor William G. Sumner, Of Yale. On 'The Forgotten Man,' Will be given ... January 30, [1883]", Brooklyn Daily Eagle , Jan. 29, 1883, p. 1
- ↑ William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man and Other Essays. Edited by Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918), pp. 465-495.
- ↑ Gillespie, Nick. Remembering 'The Forgotten Man'", Reason.com, January 2008, accessed October 9, 2018
- ↑ The Forgotten Man and Other Essays at the Online Library of Liberty
- ↑ Remembering 'The Forgotten Man' reason.com/news
- ↑ Roosevelt's speech, April 7, 1932
- ↑ TCM: Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)