{"product_id":"not-your-founding-father","title":"Not Your Founding Father","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The mind \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethrills \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eto imagine a genderless prophet among the brocades and buckskin breeches \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eof Revolutionary America, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eweirding out the normies, sticking a flower in the barrel of a musket, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003egoading the new nation to let its \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehair down--literally.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Harper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe astonishing true story of the Public Universal Friend--a genderless minister whose radical vision of freedom challenged the promises--and limits--of the American Revolution.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarly 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A thrilling celebration of a forgotten early American renegade, \u003ci\u003eNot Your Founding\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFather\u003c\/i\u003e reconsiders just how radical the American experiment could have been.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48845366100173,"sku":"9781982178703","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_6b95016b-909e-4175-a0c7-fda14cd41f07.jpg?v=1792718445","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/not-your-founding-father","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}