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The Historian's Wizard of Oz - Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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The Historian's Wizard of Oz - Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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The Historian's Wizard of Oz synthesizes four decades of scholarly
interpretations of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel as an
allegory of the Gilded Age political economy and a comment on the
gold standard. The heart of the book is an annotated version of The
Wizard of Oz that highlights the possible political and monetary
symbolism in the book by relating characters, settings, and
incidents in it to the historical events and figures of the 1890s,
the decade in which Baum wrote his story. Dighe simultaneously
values the leading political interpretations of Oz as useful and
creative teaching tools, and consolidates them in a sympathetic
fashion; yet he rejects the commonly held, and by now
well-debunked, view that those interpretations reflect Baum's
likely motivations in writing the book. The result is a unique way
for readers to acquaint themselves with a classic of children's
literature that is a bit different and darker than the better-known
film version. Students of history and economics will find two great
stories: the dramatic rise and fall of monetary populism and
William Jennings Bryan and the original rendering of a childhood
story that they know and love. This study draws on several worthy
versions of the Oz-as-Populist-parable thesis, but it also
separates the reading of Baum's book in this manner from Baum's
original intentions. Despite an incongruence with Baum's intent,
reading the story as a parable continues to provide a remarkable
window into the historical events of the 1890s and, thus,
constitutes a tremendous teaching tool for historians, economists,
and political scientists. Dighe also includes a primer on gold,
silver, and the American monetary system, aswell as a brief history
of the Populist movement.
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