{"product_id":"a-man-apart-the-journal-of-nicholas-cresswell-1774-1781-9780739128480","title":"A Man Apart: The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell  1774 - 1781","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe American Revolution radically changed the lives of many  some of them friends of the Revolution  some not  and some who wished to have no part of it for either side. Rarely did one of these reluctant witnesses leave a narrative journal. Nicholas Cresswell  a young English gentry farmer  was one. Arriving in Virginia during the momentous month of May 1774  Cresswell set out to seek his fortune as a farmer in the newer settlements in northwest Virginia. Soon the fortunes of Revolution overwhelmed him and his plans to begin a new life in America. For the next three years  Cresswell struggled to sustain his mission. Time was against him as his combatants on both sides  with increasingly ominous insistence  sought for and demanded his allegiance. This he never ceded. The very act of keeping a journal became dangerous. His written account of his attempt to sustain his liberty has long been a significant window into the turbulence of the Revolution. In offering this singular view of liberty during the Revolution  Nicholas Cresswell stood and still stands as a rebuke to subsequent historians of the Revolution  patriot leaning or loyalist leaning  who had difficulty in accommodating this journal into their generalized views of causation and justification. As a consequence  much of Cresswells real perspectives were either lost or misinformed.  In 1928  an edition of Cresswells journal was published  but it was expurgated and not annotated. This edition of the Cresswell journal is the first unexpurgated and annotated edition ever published. As such  it offers new light for the better illumination of the turbulent world of revolutionary politics and personalities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665890533429,"sku":"ByrdShop_0739128485","price":76.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780739128480.jpg?v=1782413008","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-man-apart-the-journal-of-nicholas-cresswell-1774-1781-9780739128480","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}