Book Revue: Rhett Butler's People

I enjoyed reading this novel b/c Civil War-even though it lost a hundreds among thousands of lives- is my favorite war to learn. I learned about the Civil War thru Gone With the Wind and school. Rhett Butler's People definitely tells more about the aftermath of the War like the Ku Klux Klan. Horrible happenings. Horrible. Just horrible. I can't and won't go into details b/c it's just to horrible.Although they don't have those type of stuff anymore, they still have stereotype like being racist towards one another. It's a work-in-process, but still it's still a process.
Rhett Butler doesn't seem like a cad like Gone With the Wind make him out to be. This novel is written from Rhett Butler & friends' perspective. Other than the history in the novel, it shows a side of Rhett Butler I never knew existed from Gone With the Wind. He is caring towards his closest friends among them Belle Watling to the very end till she was killed by her father's hand  &  his kinfolk, which includes his womenfolk-his mother & his lil sister with the exception of his father, who disowned him b/c he killed the overseer's son, Shad Watling; the overseer had a grudge against him all his life. He is a loyal friend towards Col. Andrew Ravanel, a casanova until after the War. Then he joined the KKK, striking terror in every heart till he committed suicide. His first wife thought he was dead so she died. His first wife was Rhett's sister's best friend Ms. Fisher, then he married Rhett married sister after the war. His sister married Rhett's best friend John Haynes till he died in the War and then she married Col. Andrew Ravanel. People called him a 'war profiteer' b/c he was a blockader, getting supplies and other trifles from other countries.
Last but least he loved Scarlett O'Hara the very end. He went to fight in the War when he realized Scarlett O'Hara didn't loved him, but he came back. At the end, despite all odds-meaning all the losses both inanimate and animate that they have survived to come thus far together they'll make, without each other there's no hope. No hope at all.
The ending is really different from Scarlett the sequel to Gone With the Wind by Alexandra Ripley.
I guess everybody has their own interpretation of Gone With the Wind.