Gone With the Wind

by Bruce Wexler

Margaret Mitchell's bestselling novel Gone With The Wind was a distillation of all that she knew about the history of the South, gleaned from stories she had heard as a young girl. She grew up just forty years after the Civil War, in a south still recovering fro the devastation. Stories told to her at her grandmother's knee about the genteel pre-war life, and the tales from confederate veterans about the bitterly fought campaign for Atlanta itself, dominated her earliest memories. These images touched the very roots of Mitchell's own family, as they did for many of the south. As her haunting memories spilled out into the pages, pouring from her second-hand portable Remington Type-writer, they were transformed into a valuable documentary account of one of the most turbulent periods in American History. 192 Pages with Pictures $19.99 S+H Add to Basket