Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People One of Barack Obama\'s Favorite Books of 2023 Brave and nuanced...an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.
In the hands of a writer of Jonathan Rosen\'s gifts and dedication, its significance will echo widely..
Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, at times almost unbearably sad, The Best Minds is an extreme version of a Story that is tragically familiar to all too many.
It is a Story about the bonds of family, friendship, and community; the promise of intellectual achievement; and the lure of utopian solutions.
The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen\'s brilliant and heartbreaking account of an American tragedy.
But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed Carrie to death with a kitchen knife and became a front-page Story of an entirely different sort.
Ron Howard bought film rights, completing the dream for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie.
He not only managed to graduate, but after his extraordinary Story was featured in The New York Times, sold a memoir for a large sum.
Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still in the hospital when he learned he\'d been accepted to Yale Law School, and still battling delusions when he decided to trade his halfway house for the top law school in the country.
One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital.
But all wasn\'t as it seemed.
Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job.
Both children of college professors, the boys were Best friends and keen competitors, and, when they both got into Yale University, seemed set to join the American meritocratic elite.
When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable.
A Story about friendship, love, and the price of self-delusion, The Best Minds explores the ways in which we understand--and fail to understand--mental illness. --Wall Street Journal Acclaimed author Jonathan Rosen\'s haunting investigation of the forces that led his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor, from the heights of brilliant promise to the forensic psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved. --The New York Times Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.
Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People One of Barack Obama\'s Favorite Books of 2023 Brave and nuanced...an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph
