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''Night Comes to the Cumberlands'' (1963) is a book by Harry Caudill that brought attention to poverty in Appalachia 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 ...
". 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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Fifty Years of Night
', a follow-up investigation by the '' Lexington Herald-Leader'' 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