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Title: It's Fiction, not History
Review: The book is better than the movie, and might be worth reading if you need an immense tome to take on vacation. Much as I despise this silly book, I have to admit it is a prime page turner.Its chief interest as a book is as a window into the viewpoint of history so common in the white upper crust South in the 1930's. The casually racist attitudes of Margaret Mitchell are a good example, and enough to make any quasi-enlightened being howl with outrage. Ditto the views on Andersonville, Reconstruction and especially the benefits of slavery to Black people.
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