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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Includes index.
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.
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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PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 365 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594202704
1594202702
SUBJECTS
Stone, Samuel, -- 1887-1981.
Benefactors -- Canton -- Biography.
Benevolence -- Canton -- History -- 20th century.
Canton (Ohio) -- Biography.
Canton (Ohio) -- History -- 20th century.
Canton (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.