Intellectuals and the American Presidency Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? By Tevi Troy Rowman & Littlefield 280 pgs. $27.95 ISBN: 0-7425-0825-0 No president is an islandBy Jackson Murphyweb posted June 10, 2002Tevi Troy's new book Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? offers a readable and compelling account of the influence that intellectuals have upon presidents. The intellectual is a funny construct. They are not simply smart people or eggheads. As Troy explains it, the intellectual is not merely someone who combines in work and play the art of thinking. The intellectual is those things as well as someone...