Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
What if Dorothy's skip down the yellow brick road was not just about getting back home to Kansas?L. Frank Baum"˜s classic "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," published amid the economic and political chaos of the 1893 financial panic, has "eerie parallels to today," according to Loyola University political science professor Michael Genovese.Genovese"˜s theory is that Dorothy (representing the Midwestern farmer or "The Everyman") is swept from home in a tornado (representing the Industrial Revolution); her landing kills...
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