TY  - BOOK
AB  - 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.
AU  - Gup, Ted,
CN  - F499.C2
CN  - F499.C2
CY  - New York :
DA  - 2010.
ID  - 349543
KW  - Benefactors
KW  - Benevolence
N1  - Includes index.
N2  - 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.
PB  - Penguin Press,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2010.
SN  - 9781594202704
SN  - 1594202702
T1  - A secret gift :how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression /
TI  - A secret gift :how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression /
ER  -