A Secret Gift: how one man's kindness--and a trove of letters--revealed the hidden history of the Great Depression

By - Gup, Ted

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Penguin Press, New York, 2010

ISBN 10 - 1594202702

ISBN 13 - 9781594202704

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Benefactors

Shelf No - 6

Call Number - 977.162 GUP

Physical Description - 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes - includes index

Book Information

The author explains how, after he discovered a cache of letters addressed to his grandfather, he realized that the man had taken out a classified ad shortly before Christmas in Depression-scarred Canton, Ohio, offering $10, no-strings-attached, to families in need, in a book that focuses on the profound effects the gifts had on their recipients.

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