“Hence like most people who have substituted the habit of delusion for reality, they became hysterical whenever the root of their delusion was touched, and reacted with a violence that completely belied the openness of mind which they prescribed for others.”
— Whittaker Chambers, Witness, 1952
Nellie Bowles could easily have used Chambers’ observation as the epigraph for Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History. Much like with Chambers’ account of leaving the Communist Party, there are two stories here. First, there is the book itself, and then there is the reaction to the book by Bowles’ former comrades-in-arms.
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