Original member of the LeagueOfGoodRoads and author of The Wizard of Oz

Frank Baum was for a while a Silverite newspaper editor in SouthDakota. He wrote the Wizard of OZ during the McKinley/Bryan rematch election of 1900, and it immediately became popular. After the Wizard book Baum moved to LosAngeles and churned out a whole series of Oz books, none of which are political. He also wrote a non-Oz novel that was a parable of the progressive era.

Links

• http://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/oz/notabletheosophist/
• http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~dparker/history/oz/oznotes.html

And, the opposing view. You never saw any political allegory! Pay no attention to the metaphor behind the curtain!

• http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm
• http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/pdffiles/summer02/bhansen.pdf

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