The Crime of ‘73 and Wonderful Wizard of Oz: a Selected Bibliography
By Michael E. Marotta

Breen, Walter. “Metallic panaceas : gold bugs, silver crusaders, and
the Wizard of Oz.” America's Gold Coinage New York, 1990. Coinage of
the America Conference. Proceedings. no. 6 p. [33]-54. American
Numismatic Society.

Brunner, Lane, Ph.D. “Gold, Silver and the Wizard of Oz.” Numismatic
Theater, National Money Show, American Numismatic Association,
Charlotte, North Carolina, March 18, 2007

Daniels, Lee A. “EDUCATION; Vermont College and Bronx School
Collaborate to Lure Minority Pupils.(National Desk).” The New York
Times (Feb 8, 1989).

Dighe, Ranjit S., editor The Historian’s Wizard of Oz. Westport,
Connecticut: Fraeger, 2002.

Dreier, Peter. “The Politics of Oz.” Pacific News Service. 24
September 1989. The San Francisco Chronicle. © 1989 Hearst
Communications Inc.

Gardner, Martin and Russell B. Nye, The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was.
East Lansing: The Michigan State University Press, 1957. Revised
edition 1994.

Genovese, Michael A. “A political scientist on the Yellow Brick Road.”
Chicago Sun-Times. 17 April 1988. © 1988 Chicago Sun Times. (“The
following is a condensed version of the controversial article
submitted by Michael Genovese to the Los Angelese [sic] Times and
syndicated nationally.”)

Genovese, Michael, A. “The Wonderful Wizard Lives On `Oz' Maintains
Its Appeal in Our Political Consciousness.” Los Angeles Times. Mar
19, 1988. Page: 8. Metro; 2; Op Ed Desk.

Hansen, Bradley A. “The Fable of the Allegory: The Wizard of Oz in
Economics,” Journal of Economic Education, Summer 2002. pp 254-264.

Hearn, Michael Patrick. “'Oz’ Author Never Championed Populism.” The
New York Times. January 10, 1992.

Hearn, Michael Patrick. The Annotated Wizard of Oz. New York: Clarkson
N. Potter, 1973. Reprinted 2000 with a preface by Martin Gardner.

Koupal, Nancy Tystad. “From the Land of Oz: L. Frank Baum's Satirical
View of South Dakota's First Year of Statehood.” Montana: The Magazine
of Western History, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Spring, 1990), pp. 46-57. Montana
Historical Society.

Littlefield, Henry M. “‘Oz’ Author Kept Intentions to Himself .” The
New York Times. February 7, 1992. (“Baum's story may be taken as a
parable on Populism, not a Populist parable. … We will never know if
Baum had any conscious allegory in mind.”)

Littlefield, Henry M. “The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism.”
American Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring, 1964), pp. 47-58. Johns
Hopkins University Press. (This is the source of the Populism-
Bimetallism theory.)

MacDonald, Rich. “The Road to Emerald City is Paved with Good
Intentions.” EconEdLink: Council for Economic Education.
http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.php?lesson=38 posted on:
September 9, 1999. Accessed 26June2009.

Parker, David B., “The Rise and Fall of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as
a “Parable on Populism,” Journal of the Georgia Association of
Historians, vol. 15 (1994), pp. 49-63

Rockoff, Hugh. “The ‘Wizard of Oz’ as a Monetary Allegory.” The
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Aug., 1990), pp.
739-760. The University of Chicago Press.

Rosen, Saul. “No Mysticism in Oz, Just the Populist Credo.” The New
York Times. December 20, 1991.

Sanders, Mitch. “Setting the Standards on the Road to Oz,” The
Numismatist, July 1991. Vol. 104, no. 7, p. 1042-1050. The American
Numismatic Association, Colorado Springs.

Schwartz, Evan, I. Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great
American Story. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.

Sloan, Don. “The Wizard of Oz Unmasked as the President.” The New York
Times. December 25, 1990.

Steinfels, Peter. “Following the Yellow Brick Road, and Finding a
Spiritual Path.” The New York Times. November 28, 1991

Taylor, Quentin P. “Money and Politics in the Land of Oz.” The
Independent Review (Winter 2005). © Copyright 2006, The Independent
Institute. http://www.usagold.com/gildedopinion/oz.html

Watts, Michael and Robert F. Smith. “Economics in Literature and
Drama.” The Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer,
1989), pp. 291-307. Heldref Publications.

Wikipedia, “Political Interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politic...Wizard_ of_Oz.
(This page was last modified on 11 May 2009 at 12:53.) Accessed June
26, 2009.

Ziaukus, Tim. “Baum's Wizard of Oz as gilded age public relations.”
Public Relations Quarterly, Fall 1998.

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