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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20020801
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When L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wizard of Oz" more than a century ago, was he writing just a timeless children's book or was it also a shrewd take on political and monetary issues of the day?

That's the question Ranjit S. Dighe, an assistant professor of economics at the State University College at Oswego, ponders in his book, "The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory," recently published by Praeger.

Dighe said he was first inspired to tackle the topic by a pair of articles - by Henry M. Littlefield in 1964 and Hugh ...

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