Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Name: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Author: Bryan Stevenson
ISBN: 9780812994537

Bryan Stevenson

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Bryan Stevenson

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#171 of 3,809 books · #84 in Biography & Memoir

Won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction (2015). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

Just Mercy won the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction, and a Books for a Better Life Award, was a #1 New York Times bestseller, and was named one of the most influential books of the decade by CNN and one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Esquire, and Time. 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.

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