A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression / Ted Gup.
2010
F499.C2 G87 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression / Ted Gup.
Author
Gup, Ted, 1950-
ISBN
9781594202704
1594202702
1594202702
Publication Details
New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
365 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
F499.C2 G87 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
977.1/62
Summary
The author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's hidden past as well as the suffering and triumphs of strangers during the Great Depression. -- From publisher's description.
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Includes index.
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Table of Contents
A Christmas carol
In consideration of the white collar man
The bread of tomorrow
If I would accept charity
Families: the crisis that brought them closer
Families: the crisis that pulled them apart
An opportunity to help
A merry and joyful Christmas
True circumstances.
In consideration of the white collar man
The bread of tomorrow
If I would accept charity
Families: the crisis that brought them closer
Families: the crisis that pulled them apart
An opportunity to help
A merry and joyful Christmas
True circumstances.