From Revisionist History: Margaret Mitchell and A Star is Born

We’re sharing a bonus episode from our friends at Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast about things misunderstood and overlooked.
This season, Malcolm’s obsessed with experiments - natural experiments, scientific experiments, thought experiments. In this episode of Revisionist History, we learn that Margaret Mitchell was killed by a drunk driver in 1949. She was one of the country’s biggest celebrities in America at the time, but the public reaction was muted.
Why wasn’t the public more angry about drunk drivers? That’s the question Malcolm sets out to explore.
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Thank you for this! It's provocatively thought provoking. It glances upon the toxic 'Antebellum' memory cult but zones in on an attitude quite forgotten about. My parent's generation wouldn't think before getting behind the wheel of a car cross eyed. That attitude persisted up to the 1980's. What I find more intriguing how it underlines what I'll just describe as 'period read', call it the light of the times. I've always been a history buff. But become more immersed over time though where as the saying goes, to forget history is to repeat it, this goes more to a more precise concept: avoid casually placing contemporary mores/ judgements upon the past,. Sometime judge ourselves by the past.