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Author Rosen, Jonathan, 1963- author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
3 holds on first copy returned of 8 copies
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3051510~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  616.8980 ROS    DUE 04-30-24 LINKin OFF-SITE
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Description 562 pages ; 25 cm
Contents 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.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Laudor, Michael.
Schizophrenics -- United States -- Biography.
Rosen, Jonathan, 1963- -- Friends and associates.
Male friendship -- United States.
New York (State) -- Biography.
ISBN 9781594206573 (hardcover)
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