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Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area
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Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area

by Harry M. Caudill. 394 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Harry M. Caudill

Publisher:

   Little, Brown and Company

Place of Publication:

  Boston  

Publication Year:

  1963
Subjects:   Appalachian Plateau--Economic Conditions, Appalachian Plateau--Social Conditions
Table of contents
Contents
Foreword vii
Introduction xi
PART I: The Wilderness Seed
1. Our Disinherited Forebears 3
2. A Harsh New Land Becomes Home Sweet Home 11
PART II: A Land Divided
3. The War 35
4. The Wars 46
5. The Things That Are More Excellent 52
PART III: The Coming of the Coal Men
6. Trees 61
7. Coal 70
8. The Frontier a Century After 77
9. The Alabaster Cities 93
10. The Big Bosses 112
PART IV: Boom and Bust
11. The Big Boom 141
12. Moonshine and Mayhem 153
13. The Great Depression 165
14. The Union Drives 188
15. The Legacy of the Thirties 206
PART V. The Second Boom
16. From Bust to Boom Again 219
PART VI. Waste and Welfare
17. Darkening Horizons 251
18. The Rise of the Welfare State 273
PART VII. The Purple Mountain Majesties
19. The Rape of the Appalachians 305
20. The Scene Today 325
21. The Politics of Decay 352
PART VIII. The Future
22. The Case for a Southern Mountain Authority 365
Postscript 393
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