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Looking Backward Ernst Müller and Philipp Wasserburg, Konrad Wilbrandt and Richard Michaelis. In the 1930s, there was a revival of interest in "Looking Backward". Several groups were formed to promote the book's ideas. The largest was Edward Bellamy Association of New York; its honorary members included John Dewey, Heywood Broun and Roger N. Baldwin. Arthur Ernest Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, also admired the book and wrote the first biography of Bellamy. "Looking Backward" influenced the novel "Future of a New China" by Liang Qichao. "Looking Backward" was rewritten in 1974 by American science fiction writer Mack Reynolds as "Looking