TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gup,Ted
TI  - A secret gift: how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression 
SN  - 9781594202704
AV  - F499.C2 G87 2010
U1  - 977.1/62 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Stone, Samuel,
KW  - Benefactors
KW  - Ohio
KW  - Canton
KW  - Biography
KW  - Benevolence
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Canton (Ohio)
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Includes index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -