book about a boy and hi a pet beaver who went Into the 

 woodcutting business together. 



By the twentieth century^ when one strain of 

 Yankee individualism had evolved into the all-powerful 

 capitalist "System," this humanitarian individualist 

 turned to Soeialisa and atuek with the Socialist Party 

 right down to the day when very few Americans even 

 knew there was a Socialist candidate for President or 

 who he was (Darlington Hoopes)* Herbert Coggins* story 

 ends on a note typical of mid-twentieth century — the 

 plight of a small businessman in a world of leviathan 

 corporations; the pligjht of a gentle soul with a 

 Quaker's aversion to violence in a world threatening 

 total war* 



In describing his own life he has also outlined 

 some features of life in the San Francisco Bay Region — 

 the post-fire literary scene , the economic dilemmas of 

 West Coast publishing. Socialism In a university town^ 

 and some phases of the automotive parts industry (an 

 appropriate motif in the cultural history of a state 

 where there are more automobiles per capita than 

 anywhere else in the world). 



He told his story In a series of three tape-recorded 

 interviews — on July 12, July 31, and Hovember lU, 1956 — 

 two in the Berkeley home of the intearirlewer and one in 



