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Gone with the Wind

Author: Margaret Mitchell

Referenced in 3 episodes

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Episodes Referencing This Book

July 07, 2022

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The primary subject of the podcast episode. Discussed extensively as a novel published in 1936 that became a massive bestseller and was later adapted into the famous 1939 film. Margaret Mitchell based the character Scarlett O'Hara on her grandmother.

June 30, 2022

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Referenced when discussing Sherman's march through Georgia - 'because of Gone with the Wind, it's incredibly famous, the blaze of destruction launched by General Sherman through Georgia and into the Carolinas.' This refers to the famous novel (and subsequent film) that shaped popular understanding of the Civil War's destruction in the South.

January 11, 2021

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Mentioned as having seismic influence on how people saw the antebellum South, though influence now dissolved