Gone with the Wind | Overview

Mitchell grew up in Atlanta during an era when the Civil War and Reconstruction remained part of the living memory of many people; when the mere mention of General William T. Sherman's name brought curses to the lips of patriotic southerners; and when some people fervently believed that the Old South, in all its grandeur, would rise again. In 1930 a group of southern intellectuals including Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom published I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, a collection of essays extolling the values of traditional southern...

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