Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: L. Frank Baum
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    -ESSAY: The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz: The untold story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel (Evan I. Schwartz, December 2024, Smithsonian)
    -ESSAY: Somewhere Over The Rainbow — In Which L. Frank Baum Helps You Choose Whom To Vote For (Nils Peterson, 8/21/23, 3 Quarks)
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    -ESSAY: The Wizard of Oz as an Allegory for the 1896 Presidential Election    -ESSAY: The Wizard of Oz: A Parable on Populism (Henry Littlefield)
    “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” as a Fable of Modern America (Mark Malvasi, 6/05/18, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: The Parable on Populism: An Autobiography of a Wizard (Christopher Steven Marcum)
    Goodbye, yellow brick road (Bill O'Rahilly, August 4 2003, Financial Times)