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

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

For more than 70 years, Giffordâ€™s Ice Cream and Candy Company was associated with nothing but pleasure for native Washingtonians and visitors to the nationâ€™s capital. Few knew the dark truthÂ… Behind the iconic businessâ€™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 beginningsÂ—dark influences that would ultimately destroy the legendary Gifford business and its troubled founding family.

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