A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression

The Resource A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
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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
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how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
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Ted Gup
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How one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
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Language
eng
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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BTCTA
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977.1/62
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  • illustrations
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Index
index present
LC call number
F499.C2
LC item number
G87 2011
Literary form
non fiction

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