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I am indebted to many writers and thinkers who have enriched my understanding of L. Frank Baum; his original work, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; the stage play and film based on this work; and his thirteen Oz sequels. In addition, I have benefited from the insights of many authors from diverse fields who have illuminated ideas about personal and professional growth that I’ve incorporated into my exploration of the learning, loving, and serving paradigm (with its corollaries, wisdom, heart, and courage) that informs The Way of Oz. What follows is a list of authors and their works without which I would have been unable to write this book. For those seeking an understanding of the Way of Oz, the primary source is, of course, Baum’s inaugural Oz book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in 1900. This work (later titled The Wizard of Oz) is available in its original format (online and through booksellers) with W. W. Denslow’s illustrations. The thirteen Oz sequels (twelve of which are abstracted in the appendix, with all listed in the bibliography) are also available online or for purchase through booksellers. In addition to these works, in order to appreciate Baum’s classic tale, it is important to view the 1939 film starring Judy Garland—which is readily available on television, online, or in commercial outlets such as Amazon or Netflix. There are in addition many scholarly works that illuminate the literary and film world of Oz. Among these are Ranjit S. Dighe’s The Historian’s Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum’s Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory; Michael Patrick Hearn’s The Annotated Wizard of Oz; Michael O. Riley’s Oz and Beyond: The Fantasy World of L. Frank Baum; Salmon Rushdie’s The Wizard of Oz; Jack Snow’s Who’s Who in Oz; Mark Evan Swartz’s Oz Before the Rainbow: L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz on Stage and Screen to 1939; and Richard Tuerk’s Oz in Perspective: Magic and Myth in the L. Frank Baum Books. A review of Baum’s life and loves, his foibles and frailties, can be found in many Bibliographic Essay Bibliographic E<

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