Night Comes to the Cumberlands
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| Author | Harry M. Caudill |
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| Publisher | Little, Brown |
Publication date | 1963 |
Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area is a 1963 book by American historian Harry M. Caudill, which brought national attention to poverty in Appalachia and is credited with making the region a focus of the United States government's War on Poverty.[1] In Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy (2004), the book is described as a "definitive text on poverty in Appalachia among journalists, academics, and government bureaucrats concerned with economic inequality in America."[2]
