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Podcast: Today In History with The Retrospectors
Episode: Writing 'Gone With The Wind'
Description: Margaret Mitchell’s first and only novel, Gone With The Wind, was released on 30th June, 1936, and delighted readers and critics alike, shifting millions of copies and scooping the Pulitzer Prize.
But its romanticised tales of life in the South - complete with glorified depictions of slave labour and the Confederate Army - was divisive for African-Americans at the time, and is now recognised as overtly racist.
Mitchell, a ‘flapper’ who had a racy private life compared to her cohort, died after being struck by a car. But her magnum...