Is Gone With the Wind historically accurate?
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According to Dr. E. Lee Spence, Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winning novel is so accurate that some of the most memorable characters are actually based on real life people.
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He claims that the character Rhett Butler is based on real-life millionaire blockade runner George Alfred Trenholm.