Peter Guzzardi spent decades as an editor working with some of the wisest writers of our time—from Stephen Hawking and Deepak Chopra to Carol Burnett and Douglas Adams—yet he couldn't shake the sense that everything he'd learned from working with them felt oddly familiar. One day, he had an epiphany: All that wisdom had its roots in a film he'd watched as a child— The Wizard of Oz.In Emeralds of Oz, Guzzardi invites us to join him on a journey through the classic ...

In the bestselling tradition of Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, a wise and inspiring collection of life lessons drawn from one of the most beloved movies of all time: The Wizard of Oz.After a lifetime in book publishing, Peter Guzzardi had edited a remarkable group of diverse authors, from Stephen Hawking to Deepak Chopra, from Carol Burnett to Douglas Adams, from Byron Katie to Geneen Roth. Yet everything he’d learned from wo...