@article{349543,
      recid = {349543},
      author = {Gup, Ted,},
      title = {A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of  letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great  Depression /},
      publisher = {Penguin Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {365 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      year = {2010},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/349543},
}