Historian's Wizard of Oz Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic As a Political and Monetary Allegory

Name: Historian's Wizard of Oz Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic As a Political and Monetary Allegory
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ISBN: 9780275974190

ISBN-10: 0275974197

ISBN-13: 9780275974190

Edition: 2002

Authors: Ranjit S. Dighe, Lisa C. Dietrich

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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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 6/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: The Colors of Money



"If I Only Had a Brain": A Primer on Gold, Silver, and the American Monetary System



"Populism Will Put Them to Sleep": A Short History of the Populist Movement of the 1890s



L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, with Annotations



Another Fiat-Money Metaphor, from The Marvelous Land of Oz



William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" Speech



The Quantity Theory of Money


Bibliography


Index