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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.

By: Gup, Ted, 1950- [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2010Description: 365 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781594202704; 1594202702Other title: How one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great DepressionSubject(s): Stone, Samuel, 1887-1981 | Benefactors -- Ohio -- Canton -- Biography | Benevolence -- Ohio -- Canton -- History -- 20th century | Canton (Ohio) -- Biography | Canton (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century | Canton (Ohio) -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 977.1/62 LOC classification: F499.C2 | G87 2010

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.

Summary: 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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Book	A J M Library 868-5076	B GUP (Browse shelf)	Available		32291

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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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