A Secret Gift: How One Man's Kindness & a Trove of Letters Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression
by Ted Gup
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages384 pages
ISBN
9781594202704
Published
2010
Description
Shortly before christmas 1933 in depression-scarred canton, ohio, a small newspaper ad offered $10, no strings attached, to 75 families in distress. Interested readers were asked to submit letters describing their hardsh...Shortly before christmas 1933 in depression-scarred canton, ohio, a small newspaper ad offered $10, no strings attached, to 75 families in distress. Interested readers were asked to submit letters describing their hardships to a benefactor calling himself mr. B. The author's grandfather sam stone was inspired to place this ad and assist his fellow cantonians as they prepared for the cruelest christmas most of them would ever witness.
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