Latest / Dear Abbie - The Non-Advice Podcast
Competitive Friendships
I have just been reading the youthful correspondence between my future father, Henry M. Rosenthal, and his best friend in college and for some years thereafter, Lionel Trilling. Trilling went on to make for himself the most brilliant career of his generation as a public intellectual. Since they had been so very close, I never knew exactly why my father broke it off with him, but that could well have been the reason. On the race track of life, it’s hard to eat your friend’s dust. . .
Abigail L. Rosenthal is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. She is the…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.