A secret gift

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.

שנה

2010

שפה

English

הוצאה

Center Point Pub.

מהדורות

1

עמודים

478

ISBN

9781602859258

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata