Yellow Brick Politics?
"The Baum family and many Oz and Baum scholars have also proclaimed that it was not Baum's intention to write a deliberate allegory," Gjovaag wrote. "Still, this has not stopped many people from taking a quaint set of metaphors and converting them into 'fact'."
Oz fans may never know the truth behind Baum's motives, but one thing is certain: It's the story's sense of wonder - not the political beliefs of L. Frank Baum - that has kept The Wizard of Oz a children's favorite for more than a century.
To read Littlefield's original article, The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism, visit http://www.amphigory.com/oz.htm To read Eric P. Gjovaag's FAQ, visit http://www.eskimo.com/~tiktok/ozfaq.html.
The copyright of the article Yellow Brick Politics? in Wizard of Oz is owned by Karen Barker Crowley. Permission to republish Yellow Brick Politics? in print or online must be granted by the author in writing.
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