Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

gone with the wind  The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Portraying the slaves as purely docile and happy in this way looks grotesque now

This is a book that presents the Ku Klux Klan as brave freedom fighters, slavery as righteous and kind, and freedom for black people as misguided and harmful  A fiery Southern belle struggles to return her family's estate to its original magnificence after the Civil War

Scarlett drives the cart all night and day through a dangerous forest full of deserters and soldiers, at last reaching Tara She arrives to find that her mother Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland and Hattie McDaniel star in this classic epic of the American South