From a Radar interview with Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of the New York Times and son of former executive editor Abe Rosenthal:

Nobody's going to believe you don't want to be executive editor. Including me.

I don't want to talk about that. I watched that job kill my father. I'm not really interested in it.

It hardly killed him. He went on for quite a while afterward.

It ruined him. It turned him into a crazy person. They all—I don't know if they go in crazy, but they all come out crazy. All of them.

Did he seem crazier to you at the end than he was at the beginning?

Vastly.

Really?

Yes. They all were. Joe Lelyveld. Bill Keller. ...

Was he like we knew him in the newsroom, or was he less volatile?

I think I said in the paper, as a father he was much like he was as a journalist.

The good parts?

And the bad parts. He was volatile and unreasonable and demanding and crazy. He used to quiz us on current events—for a quarter an answer.

Compared to almost all the other children of famous people I know—and your father wasn't the easiest of this bunch—you appear to have emerged more unscathed.

Is that right?

Yeah. For most of them, this was a terrible disability.

I guess I owe it to three people. My mother, who is an amazing woman, incredibly strong. My current wife. And this woman named Dr. Laurie Leitch, who was my therapist in Washington. Who I saw I think for seven years—including four and a half or five years of group therapy. And who really kicked my ass hard to get over being Abe's son and my first wife's husband.

(h/t to Romenesko)