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Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary

Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary

Sankovitch, Nina

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1982178701
ISBN13: 9781982178703
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.26
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
A thrilling celebration of a forgotten early American renegade, Not Your Founding Father reconsiders just how radical the American experiment could have been.

Early in the morning of October 10, 1776--in the small farming community of Cumberland, Rhode Island, in a house surrounded by cherry trees--twenty-three-year-old Jemima Wilkinson died, and the Public Universal Friend was born.

Old Cherry Wilkinson's children had already gained a reputation for scandal. Two of his boys had been dismissed from the local Quaker meeting for joining the colonial militia, while a girl was expelled for having a baby out of wedlock. Now, here was another Wilkinson child, riding about the countryside, claiming to be a genderless messenger of God.

Yet something about the Public Universal Friend set war-ravaged New England ablaze. The young minister seemed to embody the possibilities offered by the new nation, especially the right to total self-determination. To authorities, however, the minister was the devil in petticoats, a threat to the men who sought to keep America's power for themselves.

And so the Public Universal Friend ventured west to create an Eden on the frontier, a place where everyone would have the right to not only life, liberty, and the pursuit happiness, but also peace and shared prosperity. But into every Eden comes a snake. And soon, financial scams, contested wills, adultery, plagiarism, allegations of murder, and murmurs of another war with England would threaten to destroy this new American utopia.

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