Presenting history as history: not with all the sympathetic characters acting politically correct with magic 20/20 foresight, you mean?

And yes, Scarlett's attitude makes perfect sense, as does her post-war pragmatism. (I love the scene early in the novel when she looks at the portraits of various Southern heroes and judges them by their looks.*g*) And her impatience when either Ashley or Rhett get into a speech about the greater meaning of it all.

All this being said, GWTW is partisan, and if I were a teacher assigning it to my class, I'd tell them to read, say, Roots in tandem, in order to get both povs.