I Walked with Intellectuals ![](/wp-content/themes/Dissent-Rumors-Mobile/images/lock.gif)
William Barrett’s The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals (Anchor/Doubleday, 1982) is a slippery and maddening book. It is an account of one man’s intellectual coming of age, and it has the qualities of a backward glance at a busy, crisscrossed …