Jacoby, Russell

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November 5, 1987

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Is the United States Losing its Intellectual Culture?

Russell Jacoby, whose new book, The Last Intellectuals, American Culture in the Age of Academe, contends that American culture is not producing the intellectuals it did during the 40s and 50s.

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