An edition of A secret gift
(2010)
A secret gift
how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
by Ted Gup
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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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Benevolence, Benefactors, Economic conditions, Biography, HistoryPeople
Samuel Stone (1887-1981)Places
Ohio, Canton (Ohio), CantonTimes
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A secret gift: how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
2010, Penguin Press
in English
1594202702 9781594202704
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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.
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Includes index.
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