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Posted by Faye Bell on July 09, 2007 at 20:34:10:
THE AUTHENTIC SOUTH OF GONE WITH THE WIND
By Bruce Wexler. This beautiful hardback book measuring apporixmately 12"x9" and containing almost 200 pages, highlights wonderful scenes from Gone With the Wind. This would make a super coffee table book at a VERY reasonable price! The photos shows the book jacket, but the hardback book's front and back are the same as the jacket, not just a plain book front/back.
Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel GONE WITH THE WIND was a distillation of all that she knew about the history of the South, gleaned from stories she had heard as a young girl. She grew up just 40 years after the Civil War, in a South still recovering from the devastation. As her memories spilled out onto the pages pouring from her secondhand portable typewriter, they were transformed into a valuable documentary account of one of the most turbulent periods in American History.
In this one-of-a-kind companion volume, the Old South comes to life through specially researched text and more than 150 illustrations based on the novel and the real life events surrounding it. Here are the belles, balls, Southern hospitality, grand old homes, plantations, Confederate gallantry and "King" cotton (on which the South's economy was built). The flip side of the coin is also explored: slavery, military defeat, looting, and starvation, followed by the Carpetbaggers' era of Reconstruction.
This book contains many wonderful pages on Gone With the Wind, along with some magnificent scenes from the movie. Personally, I don't know why it sells for such a low price, but $19.99 for this book is a steal!
The book sells for $19.99 and can be found in the BOOKS category of the web site: www.gwtwmemories.com
