text A secret gift : how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression
- Summary
- 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 benefacto... Read more
- Contents
- 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... Read more
- Format
- text
- Description
- 365 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher
- Penguin Press 2010
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| Fife Lake Public Library | 977.162 in Adult | Available |
| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 977.162 GUP in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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