OZ IS NOT A FAIRY TALE Janice Bi Bloc 7 US HISTORY Dr. Friedman The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a book most readers will regard as a children story reading book as The New York Times announced like that this last story of The Wizard is ingeniously woven out of commonplace material. It is of course an extravaganza, but will surely be found to appeal strongly to child readers as well as to the younger children, to whom it will be read by mothers or those having charge of the entertaining of children. ( The New York Times. September 8, 1900. pp. BR12–13.) However, the truth is that Oz is not a fairy tale at all. The first printed book of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is green like the color of dollars. Dollars are also called as ‘greenback’. In general, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the book that retell …show more content…
According to the a speech paper of professor Jiancheng Lai at Yanjing Speech, after 1873, the year the Gold Standard System became the policy of trade. After that, depreciation began, because the growth rate of the money supply is too slow to keep up the growth rate of the economy. Miton Friedman the one who won the Nobel prize in the year 1976. He had wrote an essay that judged the Gold Standard System is a crime. (The Crime of 1873"，Journal of Political Economy 1990.) He has always advocated gold and silver : if gold standard couldn’t solve the problem, as well as silver standard would be a helpful umbrella, the economic system will be more secure . The ending is in 1873, McKinley became the 25th president of America. He was the leader of supporting the Gold Standard System. It is also the end in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy’s Silver Shoes have forever gone on the way she back to Kansas. All the stories back to the origin, the Gold Standard System was started in