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Rhett Butler's People
by Donald McCaig

Published: 2014-10-07
Paperback : 512 pages
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Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler's People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, Gone With The Wind. Twelve years in the making, the publication of Rhett Butler's People marks a major and historic cultural ...

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Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler's People is the astonishing and long-awaited novel that parallels the Great American Novel, Gone With The Wind. Twelve years in the making, the publication of Rhett Butler's People marks a major and historic cultural event.

Through the storytelling mastery of award-winning writer Donald McCaig, the life and times of the dashing Rhett Butler unfolds. Through Rhett's eyes we meet the people who shaped his larger than life personality as it sprang from Margaret Mitchell's unforgettable pages: Langston Butler, Rhett's unyielding father; Rosemary his steadfast sister; Tunis Bonneau, Rhett's best friend and a onetime slave; Belle Watling, the woman for whom Rhett cared long before he met Scarlett O'Hara at Twelve Oaks Plantation, on the fateful eve of the Civil War.

Of course there is Scarlett. Katie Scarlett O'Hara, the headstrong, passionate woman whose life is inextricably entwined with Rhett's: more like him than she cares to admit; more in love with him than she'll ever know…

Brought to vivid and authentic life by the hand of a master, Rhett Butler's People fulfills the dreams of those whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by Gone With The Wind.

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Ellen O'Hare's former flame Phillipe, Rhett's black friend Tunis, KKK, Civil War conditions--both soldiers and plantation residents, Belle Watling and her family, images of movie "Gone With The Wind", Margaret Mitchell
by JeanHerbranson (see profile) 07/20/11

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by JeanHerbranson (see profile) 07/20/11
I served Scarlett's Pecan Tarts, Rhett's Rice (Krispie) Squares, Ashley's Two-Timing Cookies (black & white frosted sugar cookies), Melanie's Magnolia cupcakes (decorated to look like flowers), Tara (Terra brand) Sweets & Beets chips, and a few other favorites. Of course, iced tea, lemonade, and wine were also consumed!
Fashions of the Civil War
by DCMerkle (see profile) 06/15/09
Fashion is always changing and for many of the more frugal women of the world, they have always known to hold onto the fashions that have gone out of style, but the one fashion that everyone seems to agree on was that the hooped skirts, corsets and all the frillery finery was just too much for the Southern Belle of the South back then or for today.

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by Vickie B. (see profile) 05/22/22

 
  "Sandra"by Sandra B. (see profile) 03/13/14

The book moved slowly, but was an interesting perspective on Rhett Butler.

 
  "Rhett Butler's People"by Jean H. (see profile) 07/20/11

Novel gives background on Rhett Butler's entire life and all the people he knew both before and after the time frame of "Gone With the Wind". We agreed that Clark Gable & Vivian Leigh were pictured in... (read more)

 
  "Rhett Butler's People"by Donna M. (see profile) 06/15/09

First, I must say that Donald McCaig's little dig at the author of the book "Scarlet" by Alexandra Ripley was very unprofessional as an author and presumptous to have made the following stat... (read more)

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