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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 628019, member: 57463"]The Crime of '73 catches our attention, to be sure. One professor, Gretchen Ritter writing in “Silver Slippers and a Golden Cap: L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Historical Memory in American Politics.” Journal <i>of American Studies</i>, Vol. 31, No. 2), notes that most people have to have the issue of Bimetallism explained to them. That might be why your college class did not perceive that. However, there are also racial and racialist allusions -- the Munchkins, Flying Monkeys, Winkies -- that had meaning back then and perhaps so still today. Also, in Evan Schwartz's book, (<i>Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story</i>. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2009), he points to Freudian interpretations that seem, well, let's say "peculiar." So, everyone reads into this. But that is also the point. People don't read into The Alamo or Paul Bunyon stories. <i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</i> is truly an American myth, for us what the <i>Iliad</i> and <i>Odyssey </i>were to the ancient Greeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>That said, Walter Breen was not alone in identifying the political issues stemming from The Crime of '73. The first statement came in 1964 -- and from a journal published by his alma mater, interestingly enough. Before Breen, Michael A. Genovese placed a newspaper feature with the same theory and Genovese is a highly respected political scientist. In all, I have these citations from academic periodicals: American Quarterly, The Journal of Economic Education, The Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians, Journal of American Studies, Public Relations Quarterly, EconEdLink: Council for Economic Education ... I have about the same number of separate citations from newspaper features such as Genovese's and a couple of books, again, limited to just the political and economic aspects, not the "Freudian" stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 628019, member: 57463"]The Crime of '73 catches our attention, to be sure. One professor, Gretchen Ritter writing in “Silver Slippers and a Golden Cap: L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and Historical Memory in American Politics.” Journal [I]of American Studies[/I], Vol. 31, No. 2), notes that most people have to have the issue of Bimetallism explained to them. That might be why your college class did not perceive that. However, there are also racial and racialist allusions -- the Munchkins, Flying Monkeys, Winkies -- that had meaning back then and perhaps so still today. Also, in Evan Schwartz's book, ([I]Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story[/I]. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2009), he points to Freudian interpretations that seem, well, let's say "peculiar." So, everyone reads into this. But that is also the point. People don't read into The Alamo or Paul Bunyon stories. [I]The Wonderful Wizard of Oz[/I] is truly an American myth, for us what the [I]Iliad[/I] and [I]Odyssey [/I]were to the ancient Greeks. That said, Walter Breen was not alone in identifying the political issues stemming from The Crime of '73. The first statement came in 1964 -- and from a journal published by his alma mater, interestingly enough. Before Breen, Michael A. Genovese placed a newspaper feature with the same theory and Genovese is a highly respected political scientist. In all, I have these citations from academic periodicals: American Quarterly, The Journal of Economic Education, The Journal of Political Economy, Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians, Journal of American Studies, Public Relations Quarterly, EconEdLink: Council for Economic Education ... I have about the same number of separate citations from newspaper features such as Genovese's and a couple of books, again, limited to just the political and economic aspects, not the "Freudian" stuff.[/QUOTE]
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