Bibliograph

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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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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eng

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other

Main title

A secret gift

Medium

sound recording audiobook CD

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Ted Gup

Sub title

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

Summary

During the Great Depression, the impoverished residents of Canton, Ohio were offered ten dollars to pen their tales of woe. Seventy-five years later, author Ted Gup came across these moving stories and made it his goal to chronicle the families' subsequent generations. Here, Gup's sweeping narratives embody the struggles faced by the quintessential American family over the last several decades

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