Gone With the Wind

• 
• SOURCE: New Statesman
  8/17/2022
  

  Sarah Churchwell on the Lies of "Gone With the Wind"

  by Adam Hochshild

  Does a 500 page book on the historical distortions of the novel and film seem like beating a dead horse? What if the horse is still alive and threatening to trample people? 

• 
• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/21/20
  

  Trump loves ‘Gone With the Wind.’ Historians, not so much.

  As has happened fairly regularly during the Trump administration, historians on Twitter expressed their displeasure after Trump praised Gone with the Wind.

• 
• SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly
  12-15-14 (accessed)
  

  The Rocky Road to Tara

  by Chris Nashawaty

  It took three years, cost a princely sum and threatened to go off the rails more times than David O. Selznick cared to count. But against all odds, Gone With The Wind stayed the course–and turned out to be an epic for the ages.

• 
• 12-12-14
  

  We Will Always Give a Damn: Gone with the Wind at 75

  by Bruce Chadwick

  No film about the South ever caught the feelings of the southern people like Gone with the Wind.

• 
• SOURCE: The Root
  9-28-14
  

  How African-Americans responded to Gone with the Wind

  by E.R. Shipp

  On this 75th anniversary of the film, a historical look at how the black press covered its premiere and the film’s depiction of slavery and black citizens.

• 
• SOURCE: The Kansas City Star
  9-26-14
  

  ‘Gone With the Wind’ at 75: Masterpiece or historical mess?

  As its 75th anniversary approaches, even the film’s distributor acknowledges the Civil War epic’s portrayal of slavery is dated and inaccurate.