A secret gift
how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
Large print ed.
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Word Count
119,500 words, Guess
Page Count
478 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesecretgifthowone0000gupt
- ISBN-101602859256
- ISBN-139781602859258
- Library of Congress Control Number2010026679
- OCLC Control Number646308544
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL25286810M
Classifications
- DDC977.1/62
- LCCF499.C2 G87 2010b
Description
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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