We All Scream, Andrew Gifford
We All Scream, Andrew Gifford
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We All Scream
The Fall of the Gifford's Ice Cream Empire

Author: Andrew Gifford

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/15/2018

Synopsis

For more than seventy years, Gifford's Ice Cream and Candy Company was associated with nothing but pleasure for native Washingtonians and visitors to the nation's capital. But behind the iconic business's happy facade lay elaborate schemes, a crushing bankruptcy, two million dollars of missing cash, and a tragic suicide. As the last Gifford heir unfolds his story with remarkable immediacy and candor, he reveals the byzantine betrayals and intrigue rooted in the company from its modest beginnings—dark influences that would ultimately destroy the legendary Gifford business and its troubled founding family.

About Andrew Gifford

Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Andrew Gifford is the founder and director of the Santa Fe Writers Project, an indie press dedicated to craft writing. He is the grandson of the founder of Gifford's Ice Cream.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beth on April 24, 2017

As a second generation DC native I had heard of Gifford's Ice Cream (although my family frequented Swenson's in Tenleytown), but wasn't familiar with the company's downfall and resurrection(s). I looked forward to reading this memoir because stories about the DC area in the 70's, 80's and '90's alwa......more

Goodreads review by Richard on April 26, 2017

If you grew up with mean or distant parents, or have experience within the often crazy situations inside a family business... I can tell you with all confidence that you ain't seen nothin' yet. The abuse, cruelty and psychotic behavior displayed by the parents and grandparents of the author of this......more

Goodreads review by A.A. on April 16, 2017

There's a kind of dangerous nostalgia that lurks behind all of our history: a tendency to romanticize the past by ignoring, willfully or ignorantly, all its dark corners. Gifford is the "heir" to a past steeped in nostalgia by his community, the grandson of the Gifford Ice Cream and Candy Company, a......more

Goodreads review by Anne on June 01, 2017

It's incredible to know that the author even survived the sheer insanity and trauma of his childhood. I've never heard a story quite like this one - his grandfather's family business, one that should have been a happy, feel-good place and Andrew's legacy, ends up being the haven of his deeply distur......more

Goodreads review by Prakash on January 23, 2019

Bittersweet.......more

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