The Bastardization of the Wizard of Oz

How Wicked the book and musical have destroyed the essence of America's greatest fairytale

Dec 02, 2024

∙ Paid

NOTICE

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be persecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief Ordnance

-the warning at the beginning of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.