num_pages: 394
description: In 'Night Comes To The Cumberlands' author Harry M. Caudill focuses on the terrible social sore of squalor, ignorance and demoralization among the inhabitants of the Cumberland region of eastern Kentucky. The ugly practices of coal mining plundered the hills, leaving the natives jobless and hopeless among refuse-clogged streams, sterile fields, and abandoned ""company towns"." And these shocking conditions prevail in the Cumberlands even today.
language: English
title: Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
titlecomplete: Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
genres: Historical, Biography, American, Politics, Memoir, Nonfiction, American History, Economics, Southern, History
ratings_count: 1024
publisher: Little, Brown and Company