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If his theory were true, Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mount Everest would have been motivated by a desire to test new oxygen tanks, and Joshua Slocum would have circumnavigated the world in order rack up frequent-sailing miles.
There were figures like Hannah Arendt, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Edmund Wilson doing their thing.
In his book, Jacoby deplores what he characterizes as a sort of fall, from the Edenic condition of what he calls "classical American intellectuals" born at the turn of the century--Lewis Mumford, Dwight Macdonald, and, inevitably, Edmund Wilson--to the generation born after World War II, whose intellectuals, he claims, have all retreated into academia, where they have lost themselves in a thicket of specialized professional jargon.
Book -- The Farewell Symphony , by Edmund White;
If you skipped the links while reading the article, click for a fast read on Andrew Johnson's presidency, and for a summary of JFK's hagiography of Edmund Ross.