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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Published
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2010.
ISBN
9781602859258 (lg. print : library binding : alk. paper), 1602859256 (lg. print : library binding : alk. paper)
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult | LARGE TYPE 977.162 GUP | On Shelf |
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Published
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2010.
Format
Large Print
Physical Desc
478 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9781602859258 (lg. print : library binding : alk. paper), 1602859256 (lg. print : library binding : alk. paper)
Notes
General Note
Originally published: New York : Penguin Press, c2010.
Description
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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LARGE PRINT
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Gup, T. (2010). A SECRET GIFT: HOW ONE MAN'S KINDNESS-- AND A TROVE OF LETTERS-- REVEALED THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION (Large print ed.). Center Point Pub..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gup, Ted, 1950-. 2010. A SECRET GIFT: HOW ONE MAN'S KINDNESS-- AND A TROVE OF LETTERS-- REVEALED THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION. Center Point Pub.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Gup, Ted, 1950-. A SECRET GIFT: HOW ONE MAN'S KINDNESS-- AND A TROVE OF LETTERS-- REVEALED THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION Center Point Pub, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Gup, Ted. A SECRET GIFT: HOW ONE MAN'S KINDNESS-- AND A TROVE OF LETTERS-- REVEALED THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION Large print ed., Center Point Pub., 2010.
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