In the Oz books written by L. Frank Baum the author explores political and philosophical concerns debated since the founding of the United States: the conflict between personal rights and freedoms and the good of the community. Baum creates Oz, a idyllic community that favors cultural pluralism. Cooperation extends to human beings, minorities, inanimate, mechanical beings and flora and fauna.
Numerous scholars have noted utopian aspects of the society depicted in the fourteen Oz books ...