PAUL HARRIS: The life story of Rotary's founder

From the Mayflower’s Atlantic crossing to the Californian gold rush; from the Puritan New England at the close of the nineteenth century to Al Capone’s Prohibition-era Chicago, and throughout the two World Wars, the book covers the family history, life story, the encounters and “vision” of Paul P. Harris, the founder of the Rotary Club, retold in fictional form with historical and documented sources faithfully reproduced.
Following the underlying theme of the value of friendship and solidarity, the unforgettable characters follow on from each other across the years, leaving their indelible mark on the history of a family that will reach its height on that fateful night of 23rd February 1905.
In the legendary Room 711, 127 N. Dearborn Street, in an icy Chicago, lawyer Paul Harris, along with his friends Silvester Schiele, a coal trader, Gustav E. Loehr, a mining engineer and Hiram Shorey, a tailor, founded the club which currently boasts one and a half million members and over thirty thousand clubs throughout the world.