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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 t ....

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.... was inexorable: Design presupposed God. In his autobiography he urges his children to continue to look at the wonder of life that exists within the wonder of the universe with "reverence and awe". Chambers was led through his own reverence back to his Christian roots. He began working with Time magazine in 1939 and rose to the level of senior editor. Over a decade later he was brought to court on account of his past Communist connections. He identified former State Department official Alger Hiss as one of the Communist who had supplied him with documents to be turned over to Communist agents. Hiss was indicted and sentenced to prison. Chambers ....