Essay Archive - Reverence
Reverence
Whittaker Chambers was born in 1901 and grew up in Long Island.
The book that had the greatest impact on him was Les Miserables. It taught
him that Christianity and revolution are two seemingly irreconcilable
things. After going to Columbia University he went to England, where he
joined the Communist party. There, he became the chief editor of the Daily
Worker. In 1938, he broke with the Communist party. In the Communist
party children were viewed as only a distraction that would hamper his more
important work. Therefore, abortions were commonplace in party life.
Chambers looked upon abo....
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