The best minds : a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions

Rosen, Jonathan 1963- (author.).

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
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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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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

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Biographies.

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Location	Call Number / Copy Notes	Barcode	Shelving Location	Status	Due Date
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	In Transit	-
Annie Halenbake Ross Library	616.89 Ros (Text) Memorial: In Memoriam of Charles M. Flaig	00162492	ADULT Non-Fiction	Available	-
Cambria County Library	364.1523 R813b (Text)	85131001887026	CACM Non-Fiction	Recently Returned	-
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	04/18/2024
Martin Library	Adults 616.89 ROS Health Wellness (Text)	33454005942859	2nd Floor	Checked Out	04/24/2024

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Albright Memorial Library

616.898 ROSEN (Text)

50686016291226

Adult Nonfiction

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05/11/2024