About this title: 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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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Fine. Trade Paperback. ISI Conservative Classics, 2004. Fine Book. Overall, a clean and tight, lightly read copy. Media mail packed in protective bubble lined shipping bags, Priority in a Flat Rate Envelope. Shipped quickly. Prompt response to questions. read more
Edition: 50th Anniv.
Binding: First Thus
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington, DC
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780895266927ISBN:089526692X
Description: Good, very good. 231, appendices, notes, index. Foreword by Austin W. Bramwell; Introduction by William F. Buckley, Jr. Publisher's ephemera laid in, staple holes/impressions in top corner of front flyleaf through page x. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Regnery
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good. 1961(7th Print). Regnery. Hardcover w/dust jacket. Prior owner name inside. Clean text. Tanned pages. Bumped corners and spine. Medium wear, scuffing, chips and tears on jacket. Ship same or next day. More books by author in our store. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Regnery Company
Date Published: 1951
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Fourth printing, December 1951( three months after the first). Dust jacket shows generalized edge wear with some light chipping and a few small closed edge tears. Light background soil apparent to the white rear panel--nothing objectionable just typical age. Overall the jacket exhibits good, deep colors with no fading, and remains quite presentable. $3.50 price intact to dust jacket flap. Modest age toning to the page fore edges. Blue cloth binding is clean and ... read more
Edition: 1st ed/2nd ptg
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Regnery, Chicago
Date Published: 1951
Description: Near Fine/Good+ Dust Jacket. Published Oct. 1951 1 month after 1st ptg. Dust jacket has a 3/4 inch triangular piece missing from bottom of front panel and a 1/2 inch piece missing from top of rear panel. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Regnery Company, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: BOOK VERY GOOD+ JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special, decorative bookplate. A VERY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Rear two pages have been neatly clipped at the top right corner. Decorative, blank bookplate on inside front cover. Also includes copies of older newspaper articles related to the book. 240 pages. Author's scarce first book. Collectible book! read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Regnery Company, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: BOOK VERY GOOD. JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special, decorative bookplate. ALSO INCLUDES SIGNED 5x7 PHOTO OF THE AUTHOR. A CLEAN, NICE COPY WITH A BRIGHT DUSTJACKET in new, glossy brodart. Front pastdown and front endpaper have mild discoloration at the bottom edges. The dustjacket is not price clipped and has the original price of $3.50 on the flap. Book is a rare first printing with a fourth printing dustjacket. We'll also include a ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Regnery Company, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: BOOK VERY GOOD. JACKET VERY GOOD. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a special, decorative bookplate. ALSO INCLUDES SIGNED 8x11 PHOTO OF THE AUTHOR-WHICH IS SIGNED BY PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN AND ACTOR CHARLTON HESTOR (ALSO PICTURED). A clean, nice copy with a bright dustjacket in new, glossy brodart. The dustjacket is not price clipped and has the original price of $3.50 on the flap. Book is a rare first printing with the extremely rare first state dustjacket. The ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ISI Conservative Classics
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780895266927ISBN:089526692X
Description: Good. Book is in good condition. slight yellow inside Goodwillnyonline carries a wide range of quality new and used items at competitive prices. Goodwillnyonline is operated by Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & Northern New Jersey. A major provider of services for people with disabilities and other barriers to employment. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780895266927ISBN:089526692X
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. Used, trade paperback edition. Book = VG condition; DJ = VG read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: REGNERY/GATEWAY
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780895266927ISBN:089526692X
Description: New. 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. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: henry regnery company
Date Published: 1968
Description: Very Good. 1951/12th printing 1969, Very Good paper back, clean and nice. No writings, markings or tears. A little wear on the edges of the cover. read more
Binding: Audiobook Cassette
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date Published: 8/1/1997
ISBN-13:9780786100088ISBN:0786100087
Description: New. 0786100087 Brand new audiobook on CASSETTE TAPES shipped directly from manufacturer in original packaging. Packaged in a sturdy vinyl clamshell for maximum protection. Satisfaction guaranteed. Prompt shipping with excellent customer service. read more
"Read this for book club. It's rather lost on me. I think one needs to buy into Buckley's premises on religous emphasis being important in higher education for this to resonate or mean anything. It's a lot of whining about Yale, and I can't take it too seriously considering he was my age when he wrote it.
There is a good chapter on general bias in classrooms, particularly with respect to economics...and there is a short mention of one of the systemic problems that leads to this situation, but beyond that it's a yawner that you need to slog through."
"There is a lot more economics in this book than I expected. What a juxtaposition after reading, A New Era of Responsibility, the federal budget for 2010, itself the arch-Keynesian encyclical.
As a newly minted Yale graduate of 24 (after spending two years in the military), Buckley, who had been editor of the Yalie Daily, challenged the board of his Alma Mater for reneging its founding principles: to instill a moral, Christian ethic in its students and to foster a dedication to the principles of personal, democratic freedom, especially with regard to self-determination through work and its financial rewards. He names names of professors who as agnostics taught in the religion department and of socialists who advocated the demise of capitalism, all with the tacit approval of the President, alumni and governing trustees. He extensively quotes from textbooks where authors "talk about desirable government action, appropriate social policies, just economic goals ... the obsolescence of individualism and the waning of free enterprise and capitalism." And this was written in 1950 and not last week? GAMAY even quotes sections of textbooks that advocate huge national deficits, as long as the debt is not held by other countries. Uh oh.
GAMAY is set in Connecticut book but Buckley scarcely writes about New Haven. Buckley does not reminisce about the Yale Bowl, carillons or promenades. He is not concerned about dining halls or the tables down at Morey's (which has declared bankruptcy, by the way, possibly causing the Whiffenpoofs to lose their way even more).
But the book surely depicts an intellectual domain, an ivory tower with no strong, true underpinnings. It is populated with villains: skillful, smart lecturers who stand before hundreds of young men pitching their personal biases and beliefs interspersed with curriculum, under the winking eye of an institutional administration that believes in laissez faire education. Buckley points out that many of these students are overly impressionable, unable yet to discern and assess professorial opinions which are conveyed in classrooms as authoritative tenets.
Buckley is an Our Town narrator, or better yet, a Dickensian narrator, describing horrors that no one wants to acknowledge and no one believes will ripple back in unintended consequences, deleterious to Yale and the country as a whole.
I want my 23 year old son to read the book, or at least the sections I've underlined. Nearing the end of his second year in college, he is considering majoring in psychology and minoring in philosophy and transferring to a larger university. I have told him that things have only gotten worse since 1950 ... that it is almost impossible to find educators who are not glaring, broadly liberal. I mention that a school with a strong religious affiliation would be less likely to divorce philosophy from morals and extol situational ethics. I reread Buckley's introduction that he wrote for the 25th anniversary of GAMAY's publication to see if he was even more discouraged by the state of higher education.
I am predisposed to liking this book. I "religiously" watched Firing Line on PBS and sat enrapt when he came to speak at my college. Those tics that annoyed so many I found endearing -- his smile and uplifted eyebrow that facially challenged his guest/opponent to come back with a strong rebuttal to his erudite argument. (This wasn't a hormonal reaction; no one less than George Will in his tribute to Buckley when he died last year mentioned his grin as being right up there with Jack Nicholson's.)"
"Although a bit of an anachronism, GAMAY is interesting in that it shows the trend toward secularism (anti-religion) and collectivism (anti-capitalism) that has been de rigeur on American college campi since shortly after WWII. I was surprised that it fell that way so soon after a battle with godless totalitarianism, but American higher education has always been, apparently, eager to flirt with disaster. A look at "higher" education in America today would shock even Buckley, who, at 25, just two months out of Yale himself when he wrote this (and what a vocabulary, even then!), presciently predicted this lamentable outcome. The fact that Yale began as a college to educate Congregationalislt ministers, and its own administration so thorougly and completely abdicated any religious responsibility toward its student body (in direct contravention to its own bylaws) shows how feckless and perhaps even hostile these same men have been toward the origins of their own employer. No wonder the student radicalism of the 1960s gained such a foothold at Yale; the administration themselves had lost all sense of value or tradition. An interesting aside: Buckley's youthful but still well-reasoned arguments were never countered by his critics; they merely resulted in the endless, screeching, and pathetic ad hominem attacks he so blithely suffered throughout his long, productive life, jabbing his fingers into the eyes of the liberal establishment (an establishment that began at Yale itself), all the while quoting Latin and smiling. He is sorely missed as a keen representative of what has become, thanks to his alma mater, the "alternative" view, conservatism."
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