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- ↑ Hendershot, Heather (2011). What's fair on the air? Cold War right-wing broadcasting and the public interest. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. p. 71. ISBN 9780226326788.
- ↑ Ramsey, Bruce (2009). Unsanctioned Voice: Garet Garrett, Journalist of the Old Right. Lincoln: Caxton Press. p. 5. ISBN 9780870044854.
- ↑ One dozen candles. OCLC 3876543 . Retrieved 28 December 2014– via WorldCat.
- ↑ One dozen candles : it is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. OCLC 27135277 . Retrieved 28 December 2014– via WorldCat.