Is Gone With the Wind Perhaps the Perfect Novel?
3 min readSep 3, 2023
It’s a long read but worth it, in so many ways.
A good book should entertain you, teach you something, and — hopefully, if it’s really, really good — help you unlearn something you felt you knew.
It is impossible to overstate how the American Civil War classic, Gone With the Wind, does each of these. It teaches us what the Civil War and the Reconstruction…