“At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalach

Night Comes to the Cumberlands, A Biography of a Depressed Area by Harry M. Caudill, first published in 1963, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one

This book of stories celebrates people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an independence, and a self-sufficiency that elude most of us today.

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