The Secret Political Symbolism in The Wizard of Oz

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Post by Okeefenokee » Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:07 am

JOURNAL ARTICLE
L. Frank Baum and the Progressive Dilemma
Fred Erisman
American Quarterly
Vol. 20, No. 3 (Autumn, 1968), pp. 616-623
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2711021?or ... b_contents
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Post by Okeefenokee » Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:10 am

I do think it's interesting.

Just bustin' your balls a little over the article written by the young lady who thinks she stumbled upon a long lost secret.
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Re: The Secret Political Symbolism in The Wizard of Oz

Post by Kath » Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:11 am

Okeefenokee wrote:I do think it's interesting.

Just bustin' your balls a little over the article written by the young lady who thinks she stumbled upon a long lost secret.
From her article.
But no one noticed the clear parallels to American politics in the 1890s until a historian named Henry Littlefield published an analysis of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1964. For decades, people had dismissed Baum's book as a fairytale for children. But in fact, it carried strong messages about the biggest problems facing America at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Post by Okeefenokee » Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:13 am

The Secret Political Symbolism You Never Knew Was Hidden Within The Wizard Of Oz
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Re: The Secret Political Symbolism in The Wizard of Oz

Post by Kath » Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:15 am

Okeefenokee wrote:
The Secret Political Symbolism You Never Knew Was Hidden Within The Wizard Of Oz
Ok, well I never knew it, and at the time, the underlying muse for the story was a secret.

Poorly worded, but not factually incorrect.
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Re: The Secret Political Symbolism in The Wizard of Oz

Post by SilverEagle » Tue Apr 17, 2018 9:40 am

Okeefenokee wrote:I do think it's interesting.

Just bustin' your balls a little over the article written by the young lady who thinks she stumbled upon a long lost secret.
Kinda is a lost secret. Most people have no clue about this.
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Re: The Secret Political Symbolism in The Wizard of Oz

Post by C-Mag » Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:47 am

Great stuff, been around for a long time.

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A couple of Paul Harvey 'Rest of the Story' about Oz
https://archive.org/details/PaulHarveyT ... _of_Oz.mp3
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Re: The Secret Political Symbolism in The Wizard of Oz

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Thanks Carlus. Every time I hear Paul Harvey, I'm instantly transported back to c. 1977 at my grandparents' kitchen table having lunch with my grandfather by the radio. And I don't mean in a wistful way, I mean viscerally. Magical.

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Re: The Secret Political Symbolism in The Wizard of Oz

Post by Kath » Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:18 am

I had no idea his archive was out there. So many fantastic memories.

WGN radio was on in our house, in the kitchen, daily - for hours. When Paul came on - (It was 6 p.m. or something like that,) everyone had to stop talking.
Fife wrote:Thanks Carlus. Every time I hear Paul Harvey, I'm instantly transported back to c. 1977 at my grandparents' kitchen table having lunch with my grandfather by the radio. And I don't mean in a wistful way, I mean viscerally. Magical.
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Re: The Secret Political Symbolism in The Wizard of Oz

Post by C-Mag » Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:18 am

Fife wrote:

Thanks Carlus. Every time I hear Paul Harvey, I'm instantly transported back to c. 1977 at my grandparents' kitchen table having lunch with my grandfather by the radio. And I don't mean in a wistful way, I mean viscerally. Magical.
I know. The man was mandatory lunch time listening, right after the livestock and grain reports for me.
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