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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: | LT 977.162 GUP |
| Publisher: | Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2010. |
| Publication date: | 2010. |
| Subject: |
Benefactors -- Ohio -- Canton -- Biography.
Benevolence -- Ohio -- Canton -- History -- 20th century. Large type books. Stone, Samuel, 1887-1981. Canton (Ohio) -- Biography. Canton (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. Canton (Ohio) -- History -- 20th century. |
| Title: | A secret gift : how one man's kindness-- and a trove of letters-- revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression / Ted Gup. |
| Physical description: | 478 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. |
| Contents note: | 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. |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York : Penguin Press, c2010. |
| 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: | 9781602859258 (library binding : alk. paper) 1602859256 (library binding : alk. paper) |
| LCCN: | 2010026679 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1278570 |
| Bib No.: | 1278570 |
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