The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen
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Positive
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Pan
The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Remarkable.
Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting, The Best Minds is the story of a deep friendship shattered by the nightmare of psychosis..
The Best Minds is Rosen’s masterful attempt to reconcile what happened to Michael, Carrie and their families and friends, and how — or if — their story might have gone another direction. More than half a century later, Rosen looks squarely at his friendship and the ways in which a culture that reveres intellectual achievement can blind itself to the limitations of that same person’s mind.
Excruciating, riveting.
A memoir of a boyhood friendship, a passionate critique of the failure of American mental health policy and a devastating story of human tragedy in which missed signals and intellectual complicity caused even the best minds to minimize the risks of severe mental illness.
Heart-rending.
Tragic.
Dazzling.
Rosen captures many worlds in this attentive, nuanced narrative.