God and Man at Yale »

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.

Peter Viereck

...Has a young Saint Paul emerged from the Yale class of 1950 to bring us the long-awaited Good tidings of a New Conservatism and Old Morality? The trumpets of advance publicity imply it. However, this Paul-in-a-hurry skips the preequisite of first being a rebel Saul. the difference between the easy, booster affirmation that precedes the dark night of the soul and the hard-won, tragic affirmation that follows it... Books of the Century, New York Times review, November,1951