In 1951, a twenty-five-year old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the extraordinarily irresponsible educational attitude that prevailed at his alma mater. This book rocked the academic world and catapulted its young author, William F. Buckley Jr., into the public spotlight.
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“Without God and Man at Yale, one could fairly say, the conservative movement would not exist today. Soon after winning national attention with this controversial polemic, William F. Buckley Jr. deployed his youth, charm, and intellect to unite a motley crew of cantankerous intellectuals into a viable conservative movement. Less than a generation after Lionel Trilling famously opined that ‘in the United States at this time liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition,’ Buckley had in large part caused the liberal consensus to unravel.”
—From the new foreword to the 50th Anniversary Edition
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—From the new foreword to the 50th Anniversary Edition
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WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY Jr. (1925-2008), a syndicated columnist, author, editor, television host, and adventurer, was the founder of National Review and the host of the Emmy Award-winning Firing Line, the longest-running public affairs program in television history with the same host. He was the award-winning author of many bestsellers, starting with God and Man at Yale.
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131 of 145 people found the following review helpful
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This seminal work of one of the most courageous conservative thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries laid the groundwork on which numerous other media voices built. He descrbes how it all started when he was an undergraduate at Yale University from 1946-1950. He writes from his conscious. Buckley is precise in describing how he felt traditional American values were being ignored, undermined, and distorted by academics. He makes his case by citing specific classes, instructors, and textbooks. In the revised edition he brings readers up to date on how critics and the public responded when the book originally came out. Buckley earned the right to be the quintessential role model for conservatives because of his courage and gift of clearly communicating his argument in a logical manner. There are no ad hominem fallacies here or in any of his writings. He confronts isses head on. He even discusses his motive for writing the book by saying it is tied to his love for his alma mater and the country in general. By that he means his desire is for constructive change. It is in pointing out the errors that he hopes to achieve the positive resolutions he seeks. Buckley has remained a voice worthy of an audience in the marketplace of ideas for decades. This is the book that launched him and it is worth reading at any point in time.
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Superbly written. Easy to understand. And full of common sense. It was probably its "common sense" that caused liberal academicians of Yale and other prestigious "institutes of higher learning" to reject Buckley's assessment and recommendations. For the "wisdom" was (and is) that if it's not sufficiently profound and complex, then it cannot be relevant or useful. Yet, Buckley's common sense suggestions for reforming the methods of education were (and are) right on target. By rejecting what he said out of hand, the stage was set for post-modern relativism that is rampant at "institutes of higher learning" as we enter the 21st century. A lot has happened since Buckley wrote this book, including the discrediting of collectivist ideologies and the collapse of Communism. But despite the passage of time, Buckley's words still ring true because they are rooted in conservative principles - principles based on the constancy of man's nature. My only regret is that since the writing of this book, Buckley has embraced the "snobbish" dialect of the english language. Consequently, his more recent books repel the simple man in search of common sense. Pity too since Buckley still dispenses much common sense.
25 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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Some might find it hard to imagine a time when it was shocking to find that students in an Ivy League university were being taught, even sometimes indoctrinated, by socialists and atheists. Today that's about as amazing as the news that water flows downhill.
Mr. Buckley has been right about most things for the last half century. He was very young when he wrote this book, and it was a sign of even better things to come.
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God & Man Still Timely
Still timely even after more than 60 years, this book was an amazing act of courage for a brilliant young man freshly minted from one of America's premier universities. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Elvin Layne Stingley
More applicable today then in 1951
There is no question that the entire Western World is collapsing, one can only guess why. Buckley, supplies us one centered and specific inquiry toward one particular reason for... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Sir Lancelot
Buckley gets a quick start as a writer
Buckley's first book. Still worth reading. It's amazing he wrote this post WW II when the campus was friendlier to God that it is now. He was a feisty, but winsome fellow!
Published 10 months ago by David G. Moore
In 60 years "from God and man to nature and the state"
We may have won the Cold War against Soviet Communism in 1991, but neither Communism per se (e.g., in China's heartland, in Bjelo-Russia or in Cuba), nor any other form of... Read more
Published 11 months ago by C.A.L.
WFB probes the sacred cows of academia
Obviously a book about the state of college life and of Yale in particular which was written in the early fifties will take some lumps for its dated references to the specific... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Gdalan
Raised an important alarm in its day
A good book, but not worth reading today. The problem is that it raised an alarm to a condition that existed 60 years ago (a valuable service then), but the condition existed... Read more
Published 17 months ago by MassReader
A Timeless Masterpiece
Poor Buckley. May he rest in peace forgetting that Yale and man cannot learn from him and adopt his timeless wisdom. This book could have been written a year ago. Read more
Published on February 7, 2010 by W. H. Gilmore III
Phenomenal Book
I really do not have much to add that has not already been written about this classic. If God is important to you, read the book. If God is not, don't bother. Read more
Published on December 2, 2009 by M. Young
Recommended, with reservations
God and Man at Yale is not a literary must-read, but it ranks among the classics of political and journalistic writing. Read more
Published on July 5, 2009 by A. Xu
The More Things Change . . .
You think the intellectual climate at our nation's universities is bad now? Well, it is. Real, real bad. It is, alas, not a new phenomenon. As the late, great William F. Read more
Published on May 15, 2009 by Dash Manchette
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