found: The Literature of work, c1991;t.p. (John G. Sperling)
found: LC data base, 04-13-93(hdg.: John G. Sperling)
found: Rebel with a cause, c2000:CIP t.p. (John Sperling) galley (b. 1921; entrepreneur; founder of the University of Phoenix)
found: The great divide, retro vs. metro America, 2004:t.p. (John Sperling) cover p. 4 (founder of the U. of Phoenix and the Apollo Group; Dr., Ph.D. from Cambridge Univ.)
found: Apollo Education Group WWW site, Aug. 25, 2014(Dr. John G. Sperling; born January 9, 1921, in rural Northwest Missouri (Nodaway County); died August 22, 2014, in the San Francisco Bay Area; Apollo Education Group founder in 1973; founded University of Phoenix in 1978 and ushered in for-profit higher education for working adult students; doctorate in 18th Century English Mercantile History, Univ. of Cambridge; starting in 1960, Sperling served for twelve years as a tenured professor of history at San Jose State University)