"Son of the Kaiser!...Really? " brings the reader into the life of a Saxon family of immigrants as they flee the disruption of their lives by the Industrial Revolution and the attempts by the Germanic princes to create a unified country from their various States. Arriving in Baltimore in 1883 their young son Paul is thrust into a land where he learns that life is what you make of it. And make of it he does! It's a long, often bumpy ride and the plucky little German finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of conflicting ideas about health, exercise, food, and sex. His surprising revelation made to his daughters in his final years fuels the plot and begs the question.