The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary AllegoryRanjit S. Dighe Bloomsbury Academic, 2002 M06 30 - 149 pages 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. |
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... McKinley gets the chair , boys , There'll be a jollification Throughout our happy nation And contentment everywhere ! Great will be our satisfaction When the " honest money " faction Seats McKinley in the chair No more the ample crops ...
... McKinley in the presidential contest of 1896 is described in the next chapter . The Republican platform on which McKinley ran , and won , called for America to hew to the gold standard until an international agreement on a bimetallic ...
... McKinley countered with a " front - porch campaign , " which , with the aid of cut - rate railroad excursion fares , drew 750,000 visitors to his Ohio home . The McKinley campaign deployed almost 1,500 speakers around the country and ...
Contents
The Colors of Money | 1 |
Another FiatMoney Metaphor | 131 |
The Quantity Theory of Money | 141 |
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