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A secret gift [electronic resource] : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
Published 2010. by Penguin Press, New York
Bib Id 1549529
Description 1 online resource (365 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill.
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A secret gift [electronic resource] : 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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1 online resource (365 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill.
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Includes index.
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A Christmas carol -- In consideration of the white collar man -- The bread of tomorrow -- If I would acept 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.
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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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