The world of the Founding Fathers was also a postrevolutionary society in whose streets people of all social classes jostled in festivals and parades that expressed a vibrant popular politics Simon Newman s book is as lively as the tumultuous political culture he has mapped Linda K Kerber author of Women of the Republic The world of the Founding Fathers was also a postrevolutionary society in whose streets people of all social classes jostled in festivals and parades that expressed a vibrant popular politics Simon Newman s book is as lively as the tumultuous political culture he has mapped Linda K Kerber author of Women of the Republic