Author Talk: Andrew Bridge discusses The Child Catcher

Andrew Bridge, author, lawyer, and advocate for children and families living in poverty, discusses his new book, The Child Catcher. Andrew will be in conversation with Jill Duerr Berrick, Distinguished Professor and the Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor of Social Welfare.

Andrew Bridge’s bestselling memoir, Hope’s Boy, told the story of his survival after being taken from his mentally ill mother and left to foster care. Bridge was first confined at one of our country’s most notorious children’s institutions, MacLaren Hall. Now, in The Child Catcher, he chronicles his role in the longest-running, most bitterly fought mental health lawsuit in American history. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Bridge joined the small team of civil rights lawyers representing the children of the Eufaula Adolescent Center, a violent and secretive institution in the rural South, against the State of Alabama.

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