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

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 dismisse...