{"product_id":"9781982178703","title":"Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary","description":"\u003cb\u003eA thrilling celebration of a forgotten early American renegade, \u003ci\u003eNot Your Founding Father \u003c\/i\u003ereconsiders just how radical the American experiment could have been.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly in the morning of October 9, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOld 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, and one of the girls 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYet 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnd 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.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42906056753213,"sku":"9781982178703","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781982178703_p0.jpg?v=1771588676","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781982178703","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}