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

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...
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Author: Nina Sankovitch
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Language: English
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Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary by Sankovitch, Nina

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

$89.99 $47.37
Not Your Founding Father: How a Nonbinary Minister Became America's Most Radical Revolutionary by Sankovitch, Nina

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

$89.99 $47.37
Author: Nina Sankovitch
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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 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.

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.

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.

Author: Nina Sankovitch
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 01/20/2026
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.39w x 1.31d
ISBN: 9781982178703


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2026
Library Journal 12/01/2025 pg. 81

About the Author
Nina Sankovitch is the acclaimed author of the memoir Tolstoy and the Purple Chair and several works of popular history, including Not Your Founding Father. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Vogue.
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