''Night Comes to the Cumberlands'' (1963) is a book by

Harry Caudill Harry Monroe Caudill (May 3, 1922 – November 29, 1990) was an American author, historian, lawyer, legislator, and environmentalist from Letcher County, in the coalfields of southeastern Kentucky. Biography Caudill served in World War II ...

that brought attention to poverty in

Appalachia Appalachia () is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York State to northern Alabama and Georgia. While the Appalachian Mountains stretch from Belle Isle in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ca ...

and is credited with making the Appalachian area a focus of the United States government's "

war on poverty The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national p ...

". In ''Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy'', the book is described as a "definitive text on poverty in Appalachia among journalists, academics, and government bureaucrats concerned with economic inequality in America."

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'' in 2012–2013 1962 non-fiction books Sociology books Poverty in the United States 1960s in the United States Books about Appalachia Little, Brown and Company books {{Nonfiction-book-stub