This is the book that launched Buckley's career. As a young recent Yale graduate, Buckley took on Yale's professional and administrative staffs, citing their hypocritical diversion from the tenets on which the institution was built. Yale was founded on the belief that God exists and thus virtue and individualism represent immutable cornerstones of education. However, it is apparent that when Buckley wrote this scathing expose, the institution had made an about-face Yale was expounding collectivism and agnosticism. This classic work shows Buckley as he was and is dauntless, venturesome, bold, and valiant.

William F. Buckley, Jr. is the founder of National Review and was the host of television’s longest-running program, Firing Line. The author of more than fifteen novels, many of them best-sellers, he won the American Book Award for best mystery for Stained Glass, the first in the series featuring Blackford Oakes. He lives in Connecticut.