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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST •  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.” —The New York Times

“Immensely emotional and unforgettably haunting.” —The 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. 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.

When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor became inseparable. 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.
 
Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job. But all wasn’t as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was in the locked ward of a psychiatric hospital.
 
Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, Michael was still battling delu­sions when he traded his halfway house for Yale Law School. Featured in The New York Times as a role model genius, he sold a memoir, with film rights to Ron Howard. But then Michael, in the grip of an unshakeable paranoid fantasy, stabbed his girlfriend Carrie to death and became a front-page story of an entirely different sort.
 
Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen’s magnificent and heartbreaking account of good intentions and tragic outcomes whose significance will echo widely.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B6ZC3S47
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Press (April 18, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 18, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2336 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 575 pages
Reviewer: Candid Car
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Highly informative and well written!
Review: One of the very BEST books that I have ever read. Highly intelligent, informative, honest and an extremely well written true storie. A perfect example of how we clearly make devastating mistakes with our good intentions, and the possible results. Rosen writes a true story experience, with accuracy, and memorable timely associations, creating a good trip into the past. Written with humility and also a vast experience of descriptive vocabulary! This book will remain within your own analyzing thoughts and possible misinterpretations of someone you may know.

Reviewer: Snuffles1
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Madness!
Review: My mother was a schizophrenic so I am always drawn to these kinds of books. I thought the story was compelling and enlightening. However it was very wordy and the author had a lot of extraneous literary discussions that I don’t think added to the story.

Reviewer: Morelli Bass Girl
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Riveting True Tale of Friendship and Psychosis
Review: One of the best books I’ve ever read, this true story of two friends and the psychosis of one is haunting in its detail, its examination of our higher education, legal, and mental health systems, and the role of friendship. Brilliant, inspiring, terrifying, a must read for all. Superb!

Reviewer: DNA
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wow. Fascinating and powerful. Could not stop reading.
Review: So many interesting threads, all of which I found compelling. I see others have called it too academic, like a doctoral thesis. Of course it’s written in a much more accessible way, and covers a broader scope than any doctoral thesis would, but the quality referred to is one thing I really enjoyed in the book.Will be most interesting to those with an intellectual bend, interested in ideas and the way they are both shaped by, and themselves shape, the world we live in. Also those interested in mental illness and in the nature of friendship.The less you know about the story going in, the better imo.

Reviewer: judy photog
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: self serving but thoughtful
Review: A good analysis of mental illness but for me just too many references to Yale, the Ivy League and brilliance. It just felt overdone, as though the reader wasn’t smart enough to pick up the importance to the story the first, second, third fourth times…

Reviewer: SusanLibby
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great book. A little too detailed.
Review: I like the way the writer tells the story except I found it a little too detailed in sections. He is a great writer however.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Bought for a book club
Review: Interesting , well written

Reviewer: Todd
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: heartfelt
Review: Beautifully written, so sincere, eloquent, and yet so utterly heartbreaking. Jonathan this book is such a gift. To those who have the chance, read this book.

Reviewer: brent belzberg
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is one of the great treatises on mental illness. It is so well written and so well researched but told in a manner that a laymen fully understands the many conflicts

Reviewer: GadGiltHomy
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Eyes opening novel on things like: the society in the 60-80s as well as mental illness. Rhe novel was worth the time. Truly good

Reviewer: Diana
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This compelling story of decline and fall is so well told I had to remind myself that I hadn’t lived it. The time, the place, the people seemed more like facets of my own memory than figures in someone else’s narrative. Rosen’s account of his personal connection to the tragedy is brutally honest. His explanation of the role played by America’s mental health crisis is devastating. I could not put this book down. Very highly recommended.

Reviewer: Mark Lipton
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Not only a tragic story but an honest and insightful look at the great percentage of society impacted by mental illness and society’s failure to deliver much needed care.

Reviewer: Evelyn
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I think the childhood years could have been somewhat shortened without cutting the importance of this formative time for Michael and the author.