Youth Challenges

Bonbright Foote VII has never questioned his place in the world. As the seventh in a line of Foote men to run the family firm, he assumes his path is simply inheritance: take his father's desk, wear his father's shoes, repeat. But the year is 1920, and the factory floors are restless. When a strike erupts, Bonbright finds himself caught between the men who built his family's fortune and the legacy his father demands he preserve. He expected business. He did not expect to discover that the polished floors of the executive office obscure a view he's never been taught to see. Kelland's novel is a sharp, unsentimental portrait of a young man forced to choose between the weight of his name and the whisper of his conscience. It's vintage early 20th-century American realism, leavened with humor but serious about the price of privilege.