THE BOOKS
Profiles In Mental Health Courage
“Profiles in Mental Health Courage offers compelling portraits of a diverse group of Americans living with mental health conditions. As the silence surrounding these illnesses persists, this engrossing book takes an unflinching look at the experience of mental illness and addiction, inspiring empathy and action.
In his New York Times bestselling memoir A Common Struggle, Patrick J. Kennedy shared his personal and family challenges with mental illness and addiction—as well as the nation’s. Now, he and his Common Struggle coauthor, award-winning healthcare journalist Stephen Fried, have crafted a powerful new book sharing the untold stories of others who bravely discuss their illnesses, treatments and struggles.
President John F. Kennedy, Patrick’s uncle, published Profiles in Courage to inspire “political courage” with stories of brave U.S. senators. Profiles in Mental Health Courage adapts this idea to inspire and honor “mental health courage” through the powerful lived experience of those facing America’s mental health crisis.
You’ll meet people of all backgrounds across politics and business, Hollywood and the arts, sports and science—all sharing experiences and insights we need to better understand. Their stories are intimate, sometimes shocking, always revealing. This is essential reading for caregivers, family members, policymakers, the general public—and anyone who has felt alone in experiencing these challenges themselves.
“A heartrending portrait of mental illness and substance abuse disorder in America… [Kennedy and Fried] fulfill their mission to improve visibility for those struggling to get help, and take a step toward rectifying the widespread lack of understanding about mental illnesses and substance disorders, which they argue is ‘as big an epidemic as the diseases themselves’…a revealing window into an important and timely issue.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review).
“An insightful, compelling book … that could alter perception of addiction, mental health and treatment in the U.S. … heartbreaking and inspiring.” —Kirkus
“Richly informative, harrowing, and moving, these courageously shared tales cast much-needed light on the many obstacles to mental health.” —Booklist.
“Profiles in Mental Health Courage is a miracle, a book that will help and heal and inspire. I honestly do not know how the authors did it, but their ability to get the participants to lay their souls bare in such intimate detail, is both remarkable and profound … Unprecedented, riveting, readable and rooted in humanity.” —Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights
“Teachers encounter students and families facing a variety of mental health conditions, including addiction. They’ll benefit from exploring the stories in this book, hopefully gaining empathy and understanding instead of feeling fear and dismissiveness.” —We Are Teachers
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Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
By Stephen Fried
“This comprehensive and fascinating biography … will keep readers engaged until the last page. … Fried portrays Rush as a complex, flawed person and not just a list of accomplishments … a testament to [his] authorial thoroughness and insight.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The remarkable story of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our nation’s most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers
In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men put their quills to a dangerous document they called the Declaration of Independence. Among them was a thirty-year-old doctor named Benjamin Rush. One of the youngest signatories, he was also, among stiff competition, one of the most visionary.
A brilliant physician and writer, Rush was known as the “American Hippocrates” for pioneering national healthcare and revolutionizing treatment of mental illness and addiction. Yet medicine is only part of his legacy. Dr. Rush was both a progressive thorn in the side of the American political establishment—a vocal opponent of slavery, capital punishment, and prejudice by race, religion or gender—and close friends with its most prominent leaders. He was the protégé of Franklin, the editor of Common Sense, Washington’s surgeon general, and the broker of peace between Adams and Jefferson, yet his stubborn convictions more than once threatened his career and his place in the narrative of America’s founding.
Drawing on a trove of previously unpublished letters and images, the voluminous correspondence between Rush and his better-known counterparts, and his candid and incisive personal writings, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Stephen Fried resurrects the most significant Founding Father we’ve never heard of and finally installs Dr. Rush in the pantheon of great American leaders.
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Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West—One Meal at a Time.
A New York Times Bestseller
• Wall Street Journal, Ten Best Books of the Year
• Philadelphia Inquirer, Ten Best Books of the Year
• Amazon.com Ten Best Business Books of the Year
• Kirkus Reviews, Best Books of the Year
“Part business story, part social history, part family saga, Appetite for America gives us the ‘winning’ of the West in a whole new, mouth-watering way” . –Hampton Sides, best-selling author of Blood and Thunder
“Meaty … an expansive chronicle of dining out in America …. As the gold standard of hospitality, Harvey played host to everyone who was anyone …” –Jane and Michael Stern, New York Times Book Review
“Delicious … very satisfying … Harvey’s amazing story is a tale of trailblazing entrepreneurship in trying circumstances.” –USA Today
“Once in a while, you pick up a book that prompts you to make a list of people you simply must recommend it to. Appetite for America is one of those.” –Roz Shea, bookreporter.com
“A magnificent tale of America coming of age, told with mastery and a lively sense of humor … Hollywood … could have done a slew of movies about the extraordinary life of Fred Harvey.” –David Bain, Philadelphia Inquirer
A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction
by Patrick J. Kennedy & Stephen Fried
• A New York Times Bestseller
“A stunningly unvarnished portrait of one of America’s most private public families…” –People
“Searching and fearless.” — Boston Globe
“Fascinating … This book is a must-read, not only for those suffering from mental health and substance use disorders, but also for the professionals who treat them and for those who pay for that treatment.” –Dr. George Koob, Director National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Clinical Psychiatry News
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Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia
“Vivid … the story of Gia Carangi … should be set out among the fashion magazines in modeling agency waiting rooms and other place where teen-age girls who’ve been called pretty a little too often hang out…” –The New York Times Book Review
“Gia Carangi was a story all right. Sex, drugs, rock and roll, 10-car pileup beauty, high fashion, Eurotrash, big bucks, fast cars, homosexuality, AIDS, an early death … Stephen Fried has done an admirable job reconstructing Gia’s life. … without [him] Gia would have been more than dead; she would have been forgotten.” –Boston Globe
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The New Rabbi
“Fascinating … beneath the story about synagogue politics is a novel-like story about love and loss” –The New York Times—People
“Brave…remarkable…a book about leaderships that you don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate” –The Philadelphia Inquirer
Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of Legal Drugs
“Explosive.”—People
“[Bitter Pills] could save your life.”—San Diego Union-Tribune
“The best popular book I’ve read on the subject.”—The New York Times Book Review
Husbandry
Sex, Love, & Dirty Laundry–Inside the Minds of Married Men
“A charming collection of personal essays about marriage by a guy who sounds like a devoted husband–a devoted husband, but still a guy, and that’s what makes this book fun. … Fried’s guy friends won’t be too pleased with his giving away their secrets, but wives will love this book–it’s both funny and true.” –Philadelphia Inquirer
“Any woman who’s married or been married, or has/had a boyfriend—or a father, brother or male roommate for that matter—[will] read, laugh and nod in agreement … It’s a good thing Fried has a self-deprecating tone and a sense of humor because that’s what makes this book accessible to both genders.” –Chicago Sun-Times
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