Posted on 06/25/2006 9:55:57 AM PDT by EveningStar
Confined to her bed in Atlanta by a broken ankle and arthritis, she was given a stack of blank paper by her husband, who said, "Write a book." Did she ever.
The novel's first title became its last words, "Tomorrow is another day," and at first she named the protagonist Pansy. But Pansy became Scarlett, and the title of the book published 70 years ago this week became "Gone With the Wind."
You might think that John Steinbeck, not Margaret Mitchell, was the emblematic novelist of the 1930s, and that the publishing event in American fiction in that difficult decade was his "Grapes of Wrath." Published in 1939, it captured the Depression experience that many Americans had, and that many more lived in fear of. Steinbeck's novel became a great movie, and by now 14 million copies of the book have been sold...
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
The Interstate Highway system made a huge change in American society that few today can realize.
You absolutely must read GWTW...right after you read the latest Stephanie Plum book this summer. I went to a signing with Janet Evanovich the other night...hundreds of fans there from across the societal and political specter...
Indeed.
My mother has a picture of the goat man. I will have to see if I can find it. I hadn 't thought of that in years.
Maybe George has taken an American Literature class; maybe he's bored with other things; maybe he's a neo-con; maybe he's a traditional con.
But I think he's an ABC-Con, lately.
They're either putting salt petre in his veggies or they've put the rubber bands to him when he wasn't watching.
Pap.
Next thing you know, he'll be endorsing Hillary.
"If you want to read "The Novel of the South" try Flash for Freedom by George MacDonald Fraser."
- Hardy, har, har.
In general, I avoid best sellers. Dickens is about as low as I go. But GWTW is an excellent resource for understanding how the South was led into blindness and did not recover for a century. The mentality of its old Ruling Class is inadvertently well illustrated.
Accurate? Lol. Where are all those Master loving good ole darkies we miss so much?
I loved reading the column and loved the book.
Thanks for the nice ping.
Your mom was right on the money.
GWTW's greatest value is the inadvertent truths within it. It's literary value is low. But I also would recommend it for the former.
Is that right? He WAS famous in Georgia wasn't he? We'd see him along the road. Sometimes in the middle of nowhere and all of the travelers would slow their cars and look. Late 50's early 60's is when - I think. I'm sure he was around earlier.
My mother was too snobbish to ever take such a picture. If you have one you have a gem.
Hi-o.
Has the Pulitzer Prize ever been worth spit?
I'm not worthy of mine.
When you decide to get a life the rest of us would be interested. In the meantime, you don't hold a candle to the people who populated the South. You might as well understand that. Only when you do will you get your mind right. You must be some sort of Northern Redneck. Simple in reason, simple in conclusion and simple in education.
It isn't my fault that you have succumbed to some wayward hatred of the Old South. It is yours. When you actually have something to say against the South that is worthy of debate you might want to ring back in. Until then your diatribes are embarrassing for you.
"The Ruling Class of the South cannot be maligned since it was one of the stupidest most pigheaded collection of traitors"
Prior to the War of Northern Aggression, my family was in the cotton factor business in Mobile. By all the defintions of the time, we were part of that ruling class you see fit to insult in the above remark, and as such, I take a great offense to that. I also find it intellectually dishonest to bring the idea of partisanship, because the parties have changed dramatically in the last 150 years, in fact, they have switched places. Ever since the state's righters gained ascendancy in the 1850s, Southern states have always supported the party they percieved to be Conservative, against the party that they percieved to be as liberal, an agent of social/structural change, etc. Lincoln was one of the biggest liberals this country ever had in the Presidency, and he abused his power quite a bit as well.
I will refer you to this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1653992/posts?page=98#98
And then I'll ask you the simple question
Should the statue of Admiral Semmes be replaced by a statue of Admiral Farragut?
You gotta see this. Unbelievable.
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