Has America moved past the legacy of secret and coerced adoptions?

Gabrielle Glazer will be here to talk about her new book, American Baby.

What happens at so-called tough love schools and wilderness programs for troubled youth?

Kenneth Rosen will join us to talk about troubled, the failed promise of America's behavioral

treatment programs.

Alexander Altair will give us an update for the publishing world.

Plus, we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is the Bookerview podcast for The New York Times.

It's January 22nd.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Gabrielle Glazer joins us now.

She is the author of American Baby, a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption.

Gabrielle, thanks for being here.

Thank you so much for having me.

Give us a sense of the scope of this book, because it is about a mother and a child, but

it's also about a much larger story.

I tell the story through the narrative of my late friend David Rosenberg and his birth

mother Margaret Katz, and their lifelong search to find each other.

But it really involves, I use their twin stories as a way to tell what happened to an estimated

3 million American women and their sons and daughters, their 3 million sons and daughters

in the years after the war and before a Roe v. Wade.

And who was David Rosenberg?

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