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#B New York Times Bestseller | Named one of many Best Books of the Year by The New York Times • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • The Seattle Times • Esquire • Time
Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction | Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction | Winner of a Books for a Better Life Award | Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize | Finalist for the Kirkus Reviews Prize | An American Library Association Notable Book
A highly effective true story concerning the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion name to repair our damaged system of justice—from some of the sensible and influential legal professionals of our time
Bryan Stevenson was a younger lawyer when he based the Equal Justice Initiative, a authorized follow devoted to defending these most determined and in want: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and ladies and youngsters trapped within the farthest reaches of our felony justice system. One of his first instances was that of Walter McMillian, a younger man who was sentenced to die for a infamous homicide he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan right into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and authorized brinksmanship—and reworked his understanding of mercy and justice ceaselessly.
Just Mercy is directly an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted younger lawyer’s coming of age, a shifting window into the lives of these he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion within the pursuit of true justice.
Praise for Just Mercy
“Every bit as shifting as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some methods extra so . . . a searing indictment of American legal justice and a stirring testomony to the salvation that preventing for the weak typically yields.”—David Cole, The New York Review of Books
“Searing, shifting . . . Bryan Stevenson might, certainly, be America’s Mandela.”—Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times
“You don’t should learn too lengthy to start out cheering for this man. . . . The message of this ebook . . . is that evil might be overcome, a distinction could be made. Just Mercy will make you upset and it’ll make you hopeful.”—Ted Conover, The New York Times Book Review
“Inspiring . . . a piece of favor, substance and readability . . . Stevenson shouldn’t be solely an ideal lawyer, he’s additionally a gifted author and storyteller.”—The Washington Post
“As deeply shifting, poignant and highly effective a guide as has been, and perhaps ever may be, written concerning the demise penalty.”—The Financial Times
“Brilliant.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Not since Atticus Finch has a fearless and dedicated lawyer made such a distinction within the American South. Though bigger than life, Atticus exists solely in fiction. Bryan Stevenson, nevertheless, could be very a lot alive and doing God’s work preventing for the poor, the oppressed, the unvoiced, the weak, the outcast, and people with no hope. Just Mercy is his inspiring and highly effective story.”—John Grisham
“Bryan Stevenson is one in every of my private heroes, maybe probably the most inspiring and influential crusader for justice alive at present, and Just Mercy is extraordinary. The tales informed inside these pages maintain the potential to rework what we expect we imply once we speak about justice.”—Michelle Alexander, writer of The New Jim CrowJust Mercy A Story of Justice and Redemption
