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

By Gup, Ted, 1950-

Published 2011 by Penguin Books, New York

ISBN 9780143120001

Bib Id 1558742

Copyright 2010

Edition Updated.

Description 369 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

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Leader
02048nam a2200397 a 4500
LCCN
bl2011-034320
ISBN
9780143120001 (pbk.) : $16.00
014312000X
Call #
B Stone G
Title
A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
Varying Form of Title
How one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
Edition
Updated.
Copyright Date
2010
Description
369 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note
Includes index.
Originally published: New York : Penguin Press, 2010. With additional material.
Summary
The author investigates letters from strangers who responded to his grandfather's request for descriptions of their hardships in exchange for cash, learning about his grandfather's past and the sufferings of various families during the Depression.

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