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
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The work A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Ripon Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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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
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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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- Ted Gup
- Title variation
- How one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- Language
- eng
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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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- contains biographical information
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- DLC
- Dewey number
- 977.1/62
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- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F499.C2
- LC item number
- G87 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
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