A Secret Gift

Name: A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness & a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
ISBN: 9781594202704

How One Man's Kindness & a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression

Ted Gup

2010·Nonfiction

Biography Historical Fiction

memoir

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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