The Wrath to Come
How Gone with the Wind helped shape the stories America tells itself about race and history.
Sarah Churchwell reads Gone with the Wind, the novel and the film, as a key to the myths America tells about itself. She shows how its romance of the Old South helped spread the Lost Cause version of the Civil War, and traces its influence on American ideas of race, gender and nation.
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