A page from The Alliance Songster. Currently, the collection is incomplete but holds 45 populist political songs advocating a change from the status quo and promoting the ideas of the Populist or People's Party.
Written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. Baum did not offer any conclusive proof that he intended his novel to be a political allegory. In his…