A nineteen-year-old leather worker, in the middle 1800s, decides to gather a small stake and leave a depressed Germany behind to build a new life in America. He opens a small shop and, with hard work and moxie, begins a highly successful company. Four generations later, its roots have grown a million dollar-plus corporation.
As this narrative begins, the millions are there, but with them, there is only a boy and his grandmother; and he is the Last Baer. This is a story of joy and success, of hard work and struggle, and of overcoming sorrow and prejudice with love and victory. Along the way, the reader will also find humor, outright laughter and moving relationships.