Author: WHITAKER, ROBERT
Title: The World Community (the Way out of World Chaos)
Description: Los Gatos, CA: Claire Whitaker, 1940. Paperback. This book is in Very Good condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some beginnning creasing and there is a previous owner's inked name on the front cover. There is one smallish tear to the rear top cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Robert Whitaker was a Baptist minister who served churches in Seattle; Salem, Oregon; Oakland and Los Gatos, California. He was politically active throughout his ministry. Participating in socialism, communism, pacifism, the labor movement, and the American Civil Liberties Union. He authored many articles and poem published in liberal religious and labor journals. He was once arrested under the Criminal Syndicalism Act for participating in a pacifist assembly, and later worked to free labor activist Tom Mooney from prison. Whitaker counted among his friends and collegues Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Fanny Bixby Spencer, John Haynes Holmes, and Anna Louise Strong." (online archive of Cal) .. Very Good .

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