Books: Backdrop for Atlanta

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Her husband got mixed up with the Klan and was killed. Rhett Butler saved the other members, including the courtly Ashley, from hanging. Thereupon Scarlett married Rhett to share his fortune and to learn the secrets of his ruthlessness and success. But Rhett had made the full circle, come to despise money-grubbing even more than he had hated the exaggerated chivalry of the Old South. He put all his hopes in their daughter, was heartbroken at her death, developed a queer, tormented love and hatred for Scarlett. When Scarlett could finally get Ashley she found she did not want him, that her contradictory passion for Rhett meant more to her. But whether she could ever win him again, readers must go through more than Gone With the Wind to find out.