- National Review ranked the book #7 in its 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 20th Century list.[8] The Intercollegiate Studies Institute ranked the book as the second best book of the 20th century.[9]
- In a lecture on Walker Percy, Professor Peter Kreeft of Boston College lists the book as one of six "books to read to save Western Civilization," alongside Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy, Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.[10]
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