Fiction. "I'm an anarcho-social democrat. I have a deep, instinctive distrust of power.When people start claiming they can save humankind, run like hell"-William Herrick. Herrick has been called "our American Orwell" by Paul Berman, and this story "has the sweep of a Steinbeck novel and all its open faced idealism that eventually gives way to a cranky pragmatism. Young Communist. Worker on a communal farm. Hobo riding the rails. Spanish Civil War enlistee. Union organizer for black sharecroppers in Georgia. Outspoken critic of the Communist Party. Novelist beginning in middle age"-Paul Grondahl.