The best minds : a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions / Jonathan Rosen.
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. |
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Genre: | Biographies. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Albright Memorial Library | 616.898 ROSEN (Text) | 50686016291226 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked Out | 05/11/2024 |
Altoona Area Public Library | 616.898 ROS (Text) | 33240005163764 | Adult Nonfiction | Recently Returned | - |
Annie Halenbake Ross Library | 616.89 Ros (Text)
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In Memoriam of Charles M. Flaig
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00162492 | ADULT Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Cambria County Library | 364.1523 R813b (Text) | 85131001887026 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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 | Checked Out | 05/02/2024 |
Martin Library | Adults 616.89 ROS Health Wellness (Text) | 33454005942859 | 2nd Floor | Checked Out | 04/24/2024 |
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.