The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe AUTH-13402832 the last in the Yanovskys'

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ISBN13: 9781480186538

Author: Faber

These reports were kept under lock and key for decades until they were finally revealed to the public

The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe AUTH-13402832 the last in the Yanovskys'This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the public intellectual in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Bell, and John Kenneth Galbraith; no younger group has arisen to succeed them. Unlike earlier intellectuals who lived in urban bohemias and wrote for the educated public, today's thinkers have flocked to the universities, where the politics of tenure loom