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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Gup, Ted, 1950-
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Stone, Samuel, 1887-1981.
Benefactors -- Ohio -- Canton -- Biography.
Benevolence -- Ohio -- Canton -- History -- 20th century.
Canton (Ohio) -- Biography.
Canton (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Canton (Ohio) -- History -- 20th century.
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A secret gift : how ...
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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 / Ted Gup.
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Gup, Ted, 1950-
New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Subjects
Stone, Samuel, 1887-1981.
Benefactors -- Ohio -- Canton -- Biography.
Benevolence -- Ohio -- Canton -- History -- 20th century.
Canton (Ohio) -- Biography.
Canton (Ohio) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Canton (Ohio) -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781594202704
1594202702
Description:
365 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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 and joyful Christmas -- True circumstances.
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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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Hawaii Kai Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
977.162 Gu
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
977.162 Gu
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Molokai Public Library
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977.162 Gu
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