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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 626880, member: 57463"]At the November 1989 Coinage of the Americas Conference ("America's Gold Coinage"), Walter Breen delivered a talk suggesting that L. Frank Baum's <i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</i> was an allegory or parable about the politics of bimetallism during the McKinley-Bryan presidential campaigns. For most numismatists, this was as surprising as the events of the story were to Dorothy. In fact, the theory goes back to 1964 and supports a rich literature of its own. </p><p><br /></p><p>In this week's Esylum, I will have a couple of paragraphs on what I have found so far. I have 27 citations, 24 of them specifically about the monetary aspects. Others focus in whole or in part on other aspectes of the political debates, including the status of the Filipinos and Native Americans. (I posted a Bibliography on the Usenet Newsgroup Rec.Collecting.Coins.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Yellow Brick Road = the Gold Standard</p><p>Oz = ounce</p><p>Tinman = Worker</p><p>Scarecrow = Farmer</p><p>Cowardly Lion = William Jennings Bryan</p><p>Wizard = McKinley (or other US President)</p><p>Emerald City = White House</p><p>Silver Slippers (in book) = power of silver money</p><p>Green glasses (in book) = illusion of paper money</p><p>Gold cap (in book) = power of gold money[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 626880, member: 57463"]At the November 1989 Coinage of the Americas Conference ("America's Gold Coinage"), Walter Breen delivered a talk suggesting that L. Frank Baum's [I]The Wonderful Wizard of Oz[/I] was an allegory or parable about the politics of bimetallism during the McKinley-Bryan presidential campaigns. For most numismatists, this was as surprising as the events of the story were to Dorothy. In fact, the theory goes back to 1964 and supports a rich literature of its own. In this week's Esylum, I will have a couple of paragraphs on what I have found so far. I have 27 citations, 24 of them specifically about the monetary aspects. Others focus in whole or in part on other aspectes of the political debates, including the status of the Filipinos and Native Americans. (I posted a Bibliography on the Usenet Newsgroup Rec.Collecting.Coins.) Yellow Brick Road = the Gold Standard Oz = ounce Tinman = Worker Scarecrow = Farmer Cowardly Lion = William Jennings Bryan Wizard = McKinley (or other US President) Emerald City = White House Silver Slippers (in book) = power of silver money Green glasses (in book) = illusion of paper money Gold cap (in book) = power of gold money[/QUOTE]
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