“There was a land of cavaliers and cotton fields called the Old South”.
Tom and Dominic are joined by Sarah Churchwell to discuss the ‘Lost Cause’ myth that has pervaded American culture for 150 years, its embodiment in both the novel and film version of Gone with the Wind, and what insight it gives into post-Civil War America.
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