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The Wrath to Come - Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (Paperback)
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The Wrath to Come - Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells (Paperback)
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List price R360
Loot Price R298
Discovery Miles 2 980
You Save R62 (17%)
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The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took
my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly
powerful read' Peter Frankopan 'One of the must-reads of the year'
Suzannah Lipscomb 'Brilliant and provocative' Gavin Esler Sarah
Churchwell examines one of the most enduringly popular stories of
all time, Gone with the Wind, to help explain the divisions ripping
the United States apart today. Separating fact from fiction, she
shows how histories of mythmaking have informed America's racial
and gender politics, the controversies over Confederate statues,
the resurgence of white nationalism, the Black Lives Matter
movement, the enduring power of the American Dream, and the
violence of Trumpism. Gone with the Wind was an instant bestseller
when it was published in 1936; its film version became the most
successful Hollywood film of all time. Today the story's racism is
again a subject of controversy, but it was just as controversial in
the 1930s, foreshadowing today's debates over race and American
fascism. In The Wrath to Come, Sarah Churchwell charts an
extraordinary journey through 160 years of American denialism. From
the Lost Cause to the romances behind the Ku Klux Klan, from the
invention of the 'ideal' slave plantation to the erasure of
interwar fascism, Churchwell shows what happens when we do violence
to history, as collective denial turns fictions into lies, and lies
into a vicious reality.
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