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Andrew Bridge, bestselling author releases a new book- September 2024, The Child Catcher, he chronicles his role in the longest-running, most bitterly fought mental health lawsuit in American history.
Andrew Bridge’s bestselling memoir, Hope’s Boy, tells the story of his survival after being taken from his mentally ill mother and left in foster care. Bridge was first confined at one of our country’s most notorious children’s institutions, MacLaren Hall. In The Child Catcher, he now chronicles his role in the longest-running, most bitterly fought mental health lawsuit in American history.
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