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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 / Ted Gup. |
| Authors: | Gup, Ted, 1950- |
| Call number: | 977.162 GUP |
| Publisher: | New York : Penguin Press, 2010. |
| Publication date: | 2010. |
| Subject: |
Benefactors -- Ohio -- Canton -- Biography.
Benevolence -- Ohio -- Canton -- History -- 20th century. Depressions -- 1929 -- Ohio. Canton (Ohio) -- Biography. Canton (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. Canton (Ohio) -- History -- 20th century. Stone, Samuel, 1887-1981. |
| Title: | A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression / Ted Gup. |
| Additional title: | How one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression |
| Physical description: | 365 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: | A Christmas carol -- In consideration of the white collar man -- The bread of tomorrow -- If I would acept 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. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| ISBN: | 9781594202704 1594202702 |
| LCCN: | 2010017302 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1264417 |
| Bib No.: | 1264417 |
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