In one of the most extraordinary and almost forgotten chapters in American history, a man named James Jesse Strang crowned himself king on U.S. soil. This episode unravels the rise of the self-declared monarch who founded a breakaway kingdom in the mid-19th century, complete with royal robes, loyal subjects, political power, and a remote island realm in Lake Michigan.

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