{"title":"David C. Downing","description":"\u003cp\u003eDAVID C. DOWNING is the R. W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College and Co-director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, with four scholarly books on C. S. Lewis to his name. His recent books include \u003cem\u003eA South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePlanets in Peril\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDowning’s book \u003cem\u003ePlanets in Peril\u003c\/em\u003e was named an Outstanding Book of the Year by the American Library Association and received the Mythopoeic Society’s Book of the Year award. \u003cem\u003eA South Divided\u003c\/em\u003e was nominated for the Lincoln Award sponsored by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDowning holds a BA from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, and an MA and PhD from UCLA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid C. Downing’s books are published by Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-south-divided","title":"A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA South Divided\u003c\/em\u003e is an account of Southern dissidents in the Civil War, at times labeled as traitors, Tories, deserters, or mossbacks during the war and loyalists, Lincoln loyalists, and Unionists by historians of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in Southern dissenters among specific groups or communities. But \u003cem\u003eA South Divided\u003c\/em\u003e presents a panoramic overview of Southern dissent. What emerges is a complex pattern of dissent involving every state of the Confederacy and every year of the war. All of these people and groups had their part to play in the epic drama that sapped the strength of the Confederacy from within. They were rebels against the rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1581825870\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781581825879\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"David C. Downing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43236420485336,"sku":"9781581825879","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/SouthDivided_FChigh_mockup_v2_1666299201_81c98bd2-7d8c-45c4-9689-a5e45d85dcc4.jpg?v=1791024752"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-david-c-downing.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}