Foundation Stone (Library of Alabama Classics)

About this book

Using the history of Alabama and the stories of her pioneering ancestors Lella Warren created the Whetstone clan who settled Alabama in the 1820s helped lead it into the prosperity of the 1850s and fought for it in the War Between the States. The historical background of Foundation Stone is authentic but more it is a compelling story about believable characters. The story of these peoplethree generations of Whetstonescaptures the American pioneering spirit. As an unidentified reviewer described the novel Lella Warrens Foundation Stone is the long well-told chronicle of a family that loved and hoped and struggled in a difficult world unaware that they symbolized an era and a way of life. Foundation Stone was published in September 1940 and was on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list September 1940-February 1941 along with Hemingways For Whom the Bell Tolls and Wolfes You Cant Go Home Again.