From Horatio Alger to Eugene Debs : oral history transcript / Herbert Leonard Coggins; tape recorded interviews conducted by Corinne L. Gilb in July-November, 1956. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1956.

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From Horatio Alger to Eugene Debs : oral history transcript / Herbert Leonard Coggins; tape recorded interviews conducted by Corinne L. Gilb in July-November, 1956. Regional Cultural History Project, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1956.

Notes on family influences and early life; work for publishers in Philadelphia and San Francisco; recollections of California Literary figures; Socialist Party connections; his worker-run business: interest in ornithology and writing. Portrait and signed statement inserted.

viii, 172 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Dr. Corinne Lathrop Gilb was born in Lethbridge, Alberta to American parents. She moved with her family to Washington State at the age of eight, and received a B.A. from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. at Radcliffe College. She married Tyrell Gilb in 1945. After teaching at university level for 37 years, she retired as Professor Emeritus from Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich., in 1994. She served as the first director of UC Berkeley's Regional Cultural (Oral) History Project, Plan...