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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

4.0

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Simultaneously an excellently written historical romance, and a piece of racist propaganda by an author who believed the "southern lost cause" myth, that being that the civil war was not over slavery and romanticized the plantation-era south, including downplaying slavery as “benevolent”- not remotely historically accurate. Unfortunately it was used by post reconstruction southerners as a piece of political propaganda to support their the romanticization of the antebellum south. Enjoy it but enjoy it critically.