** There was considerable in-depth analysis of it... the author was allegedly an outspoken advocate of the dual-metal standard-- gold and silver, specifically (SILVER shoes on a YELLOW (gold) brick road leading to an EMERALD city of prosperity), and opposed the use of fiat currency which we use now... money that's valuable because the government says so (hence the Wizard making everyone believe the city was truly solid emerald by making everyone wear tinted spectacles. The situation-- as with fiat money-- was illusory.) Also at the time scarecrows, tin men, references to (at the time struggling) Kansas and tornadoes were regular tropes in editorial cartoons... Deliberate or picked up by osmosis, it's hard to deny there was some contamination by sociopolitics of the time. The emeralds being illusion was retconned in the second book.
** The whole "Wizard of Oz is a Populist tract about the gold standard" thing was made up by a history teacher trying to get his kids to pay attention. [[http://thewizardofoz.info/wiki/About_the_Oz_Books#Is_it_true_that_The_Wizard_of_Oz_was_written_as_a_political_tract.3F It just fit so well it stuck]].

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