{"product_id":"not-your-founding-father-isbn-9781982178703","title":"Not Your Founding Father","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 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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, 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\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48683518197989,"sku":"NP9781982178703","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/O_e3a35bb0-c577-48f7-96ab-e612bbb85221.jpg?v=1775169855","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/not-your-founding-father-isbn-9781982178703","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}