It takes the average reader 6 hours and 32 minutes to read Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area by Harry M. Claudill
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“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 Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia. Caudill’s study begins in the violence of the Indian wars and ends in the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. Two hundred years ago, the Cumberland Plateau was a land of great promise. Its deep, twisting valleys contained rich bottomlands. The surrounding mountains were teeming with game and covered with valuable timber. The people who came into...
Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area by Harry M. Claudill is 379 pages long, and a total of 98,161 words.
This makes it 128% the length of the average book. It also has 120% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 56 minutes to read Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area aloud.
Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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