Book Tour Returning Rhett to Peach State

Oct 29, 09:34 AM

Current Headlines: Rhett Butler, the fictional Southern charmer who walked out of Scarlett O'Hara's life in "Gone With the Wind," returns to Georgia next weekend -- on a book tour of sorts.

The book, to be unveiled Saturday, is a kind of retelling of Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece from Rhett's perspective and traces Butler from his roots in South Carolina to Georgia, where he met the dramatic Scarlett.

An Atlanta committee charged with protecting Mitchell's novel authorized the book, "Rhett Butler's People." The book was written by little-known Civil War novelist Donald McCaig, 67.

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