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　　"FINDING OZ": NEW FINDINGS REVEAL INSPIRATION BEHIND BAUM'S MASTERPIECE When L. Frank Baum wrote 1900's best-selling "The Wizard of Oz," he based the story's namesake wizard on two real-life characters of his day -- showman and huckster P.T. Barnum, and the inventor Thomas Edison. This is just one of the many revelations in Schwartz' book.
　　Schwartz -- a former Business Week editor and author of "The Last Lone Inventor" -- uses his book as a lens to view the people and events at the turn of the 19th century, showing how Baum captured the wonder of the age he lived in. --The New York Post, April 19, 2009

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　　A groundbreaking new look at an American icon, THE WIZARD OFOZ.
　　Finding Oz tells the remarkable tale behind one of the world'smost enduring and best loved stories. Offering profound newinsights into the true origins and meaning of L. Frank Baum's 1900masterwork, it delves into the personal turmoil and spiritualtransformation that fueled Baum's fantastical parable of theAmerican Dream.

<p>　　A groundbreaking new look at an American icon, THE WIZARD OF
OZ.<br />
　　Finding Oz tells the remarkable tale behind one of the world's
most enduring and best loved stories. Offering profound new
insights into the true origins and meaning of L. Frank Baum's 1900
masterwork, it delves into the personal turmoil and spiritual
transformation that fueled Baum's fantastical parable of the
American Dream.<br />
　　Prior to becoming an impresario of children's adventure
tales---the J. K. Rowling of his age---Baum failed at a series of
careers and nearly lost his soul before setting out on a journey of
discovery that would lead to the Land of Oz. Drawing on original
research, Evan Schwartz debunks popular misconceptions and shows
how the people, places, and events in Baum's life gave birth to his
unforgettable images and characters. The Yellow Brick Road was
real, the Emerald City evoked the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and
Baum's mother-in-law, the radical women's rights leader Matilda
Joslyn Gage, inspired his dual view of witches--as good and wicked.
A narrative that sweeps across late nineteenth-century America,
Finding Oz ultimately reveals how failure and heartbreak can
sometimes lead to redemption and bliss, and how one individual can
ignite the imagination of the entire world.</p>

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作者简介

　　EVAN I. SCHWARTZ is a former award-winning editor at Business Week and the author of The Last Lone Inventor, named one of the seventy-five best business books of all time by Fortune. The idea for Finding Oz came to him while reading Baum's classic to his daughter at bedtime.

目　　录

Prologue: America's Adventure
PART Ⅰ
　1. No Place Like Home
　2. An Unexpected Journey
　3. A Girl in a Man's World
　4. Heart of a Tin Man
　5. Roadblock
PART Ⅱ
　6. The Mythic Oilcan
　7. Witch-hunting
　8. Frontier of Hope and Fear
　9. The Story Store
　10. The Brainless and the Heartless
　11. Field of Blood

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