The best minds : a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions
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Penguin Press,
New York :
2023.
- 2 of 2 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
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About
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.
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- ISBN: 9781594206573
- Physical Description: 562 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.