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The best minds : a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions / Jonathan Rosen.

Summary:
An acclaimed author investigates the forces that led his closest childhood friend, a paranoid schizophrenic with brilliant promise who defied the odds and graduated from Yale Law School, to kill the woman he loved, in this exploration of the ways in which we understand--and fail to understand--mental illness.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781594206573
  • Physical Description: 562 pages ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [531]-539) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The suitable playmate -- The good earth -- Memory glass -- Strangers -- American pie -- Freedom summer -- Message in a bottle -- Misreading -- The shadow knows -- Revolving door -- Going sane -- Stories -- Choosing -- The break -- Entanglement -- Locked ward -- Making illness a weapon -- Underclass -- Halfway -- Brains -- Mentors -- Precedent -- Secrets -- The sympathetic light of sickness -- Happy idiot -- Post doc -- Thoughtful enabling -- Career killer -- Role model -- Twice born -- Creativity, inc. -- Michael called Kevin -- Shamans -- Equal opportunity -- The backward journey -- The two Adams -- Personal emergency -- Going back -- The fatal funnel -- Cain and Abel -- The eternal optimist -- Endings.
Subject: Laudor, Michael.
Rosen, Jonathan, 1963- > Friends and associates.
Schizophrenics > United States > Biography.
Male friendship > United States.
Mental health > United States > 20th century.
New York (State) > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 15 of 21 copies available at SPARK Libraries. (Show)

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  • 1 current hold with 21 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library 616.898 ROSEN (Text) 50686016291226 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 616.898 ROS (Text) 33240005163764 Adult Nonfiction Checked Out 04/10/2024
Annie Halenbake Ross Library 616.89 Ros (Text) 00162492 New Adult Available -
Cambria County Library 364.1523 R813b (Text) 85131001887026 CACM Non-Fiction Checked Out 04/10/2024
Gettysburg Library BIOG LAUD-M (Text) 35740635966906 Biography Available -
Highland Community Library 616.89 ROS (Text) 35610001014153 HGHM Non-Fiction Available -
Huntingdon County Library NF 616.89 ROS (Text) 30298100635832 Nonfiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Biography Laudor (Text) 39427103734372 Nonfiction Room: Adult Biography Available -
Lower Macungie Library 616.898 ROS (Text) 33400001607210 New Adult Nonfiction Available -
Martin Library Adults 616.89 ROS Health Wellness (Text) 33454005942859 2nd Floor Available -


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