Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1951
First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper: “For Mr. S T Salvage, / with many thanks for / much needed / encouragement - / William F. Buckley.” Laid in is a photograph of Buckley in later years, also signed by him. A near fine copy in a very good only dust jacket, with chipping at the extremities and substantial (but effective) tape reinforcement to the verso. A very presentable copy still. Buckley’s first book, highly critical of his experience at Yale University. He describes the school’s resentment against religion, and its manner of suppressing individuality and imposing ideologies on students. Buckley would go on to publish over 50 books and become the "preeminent voice of American conservatism and its first great ecumenical figure.” (Nash)