For more than 70 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.

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

Gifford, Andrew

Biographies & Memoirs

Stillhouse Press

A sermon in commemoration of the great storm, commonly called the high wind, in the year 1703. Preached at the chapel in little Wild-Street, London, ... of the damage done by it. By A. Gifford.

History

World

Gale ECCO, Print Editions

Eighteen Sermons

Whitefield, George

Gurney, Joseph

Religion & Spirituality

Nabu Press

"A Southern Gothic for the DC area." - Vanity Fair Suicide, bankruptcy, and a missing fortune... What happened to the iconic Gifford's Ice Cream franchise and the family behind it? Few know the truth... For more than 70 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 and cruel schemes. In this memoir of discovery and resilience, the last Gifford heir takes the reader from his life under the shadow of the family business, to the broken world left behind by his abusive parents. Gifford attempts to understand the reasoning behind the byzantine betrayals and intrigue rooted in the company from its modest beginnings--dark influences that would ultimately destroy the legendary business and its troubled founding family. "This amazing, harrowing tale of the D.C. ice cream family makes it deeply clear that what looks sweet on the surface begs for further investigation -- a brave, dark story of dysfunction." - A.M. Homes, author of May We Be Forgiven and The End of Alice "This is a page turner from page one to the end. A well written, well paced story of intrigue, domestic horror, and how we never know what's truly happening behind the facades we humans construct for the rest of the world. Highly recommend." - Karen Stefano, author of What A Body Remembers

Parenting & Relationships

Santa Fe Writer's Project

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