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000349543 1001_ $$aGup, Ted,$$d1950-
000349543 24512 $$aA secret gift :$$bhow one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression /$$cTed Gup.
000349543 24630 $$aHow one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
000349543 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPenguin Press,$$c2010.
000349543 300__ $$a365 p., [16] p. of plates :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000349543 500__ $$aIncludes index.
000349543 5050_ $$aA 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.
000349543 520__ $$aThe author's grandfather, Sam Stone, placed an ad in the Canton, OH, newspaper shortly before Christmas in 1933, offering cash gifts to seventy-five families in distress. Readers were asked to send letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself Mr. B. Virdot. The author investigates a suitcase full of letters responding to these ads as he learns more about his grandfather's hidden past as well as the suffering and triumphs of strangers during the Great Depression. -- From publisher's description.
000349543 60010 $$aStone, Samuel,$$d1887-1981.
000349543 650_0 $$aBenefactors$$zOhio$$zCanton$$vBiography.
000349543 650_0 $$aBenevolence$$zOhio$$zCanton$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000349543 651_0 $$aCanton (Ohio)$$vBiography.
000349543 651_0 $$aCanton (Ohio)$$xEconomic conditions$$y20th century.
000349543 651_0 $$aCanton (Ohio)$$xHistory$$y20th century.
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