A Secret Gift : How One Man's Kindness--And a Trove of Letters--Revealed the Hidden History of T He Great Depression (Hardcover)

from KHusser

A Secret Gift by Ted Gup is a unique blend of narrative history coupled with various personal stories relating to the Great Depression of the 20th Century. This time period shaped a generation and has a strong correlation to the current "Great Recession" our country has recently experienced. The ...

from mmadamslibrarian

The author explores the secret life of his grandfather- who during the Depression, gave 75 families an anonymous gift of $5. 75 years later, Gup tracks down family members of the recipients to see if they knew the impact of each gift. With each letter that he includes, a picture of abject poverty...

from jbarr5

A Secret Gift How One Man's Kindness in a Drove of Letters Love hearing about the years of the depression in the US. This one starts out in 1933 and about Canton, Ohio where an ad in the local newspaper will aid 75 families. The grandson finds all the letters and his grandfathers bank book and le...

from bowedbookshelf

I am not sure where I first heard the name Ted Gup. It could have been a Goodreads friend, or it could have been an article by that author written more recently. When I investigated his name more closely, I discovered he'd written a book, this book, in 2010 about discovering a suitcase of letters...

from KHusser

A Secret Gift by Ted Gup is a unique blend of narrative history coupled with various personal stories relating to the Great Depression of the 20th Century. This time period shaped a generation and has a strong correlation to the current "Great Recession" our country has recently experienced. The ...