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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption / Bryan Stevenson.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevenson, Bryan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stevenson, Bryan.
- Equal Justice Initiative.
- Lawyers--United States--Biography.
- Lawyers.
- False imprisonment.
- United States.
- Social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Social reformers.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Legal assistance to the poor--United States.
- Legal assistance to the poor.
- False imprisonment--United States.
- Judicial error--United States.
- Judicial error.
- Public interest law--United States.
- Public interest law.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 349 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Spiegel & Grau trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
- Summary:
- Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn't commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship--and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever. Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer's coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Higher ground
- Mockingbird players
- Stand
- Trials and tribulation
- The old rugged cross
- Of the coming of John
- Surely doomed
- Justice denied
- All God's children
- I'm here
- Mitigation
- I'll fly away
- Mother, Mother
- Recovery
- Cruel and unusual
- Broken
- The Stonecatchers' song of sorrow
- Epilogue
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Book design by Caroline Cunningham.
- Cover deisng: Alex Merto. Cover photograph © Martin Barraud/Getty Images.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction ; 100 notable books, The New York Times Book Review, 2014.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy has bookplate label of Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 9780812984965
- 081298496X
- 9780812989397
- 0812989392
- 9780399588839
- 0399588833
- 9780399589904
- 0399589902
- 9780399590498
- 0399590498
- OCLC:
- 906010206
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