We All Scream

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.

De mai bine de 70 de ani, compania de inghetata si bomboane Gifford a fost asociata cu nimic altceva decat placere pentru nativistii din Washington si pentru vizitatorii capitalei natiunii. Dar in spatele fatadei fericite a afacerii iconice se gaseau scheme elaborate, un faliment zdrobitor, doua milioane de dolari in numerar lipsa si un sinucidere tragic.