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A Story of Justice and Redemption

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An edition of Just Mercy (1600)

Just Mercy

A Story of Justice and Redemption

  • 4.21 ·
  • 24 Ratings
  • 454 Want to read
  • 34 Currently reading
  • 37 Have read

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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Spiegel & Grau
Language
English

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Cover of: Ohne Gnade
Ohne Gnade: Polizeigewalt und Justizwillkür in den USA
2016 November, PIPER, Piper Verlag GmbH, Piper Verlag Gmbh
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
2015, Spiegel & Grau
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Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption
2015, Scribe, Scribe Publications
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Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption
2014, Spiegel & Grau
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
2014, Spiegel & Grau
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Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Epigraph
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

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2014

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
353.4/8092 23
Library of Congress
KF373.S743 A3 2014eb, KF373.S743 A3 2014, KF373.S7456 A3 2014

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Format
Ebook

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25804313M
ISBN 10
0812994531
ISBN 13
9780812994537
LCCN
2014430900
OCLC/WorldCat
988096399, 877914371
amazon.co.uk_asin
B00JYWVYLY
Google
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amazon.de_asin
B00JYWVYLY
Canadian National Library Archive
45011824
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B00JYWVYLY
OverDrive
22C705F4-78CC-495C-997B-B0E7760EB192
amazon.ca_asin
B00JYWVYLY
Goodreads
58572614

Work Description

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption is a memoir by Bryan Stevenson that documents his career as a lawyer for disadvantaged clients. The book, focusing on injustices in the United States judicial system, alternates chapters between documenting Stevenson's efforts to overturn the wrongful conviction of Walter McMillian and his work on other cases, including children who receive life sentences and other poor or marginalized clients.

Initially published by Spiegel & Grau, then an imprint of Penguin Random House, on 21 October 2014 in hardcover and digital formats and by Random House Audio in audiobook format read by Stevenson, a paperback edition was released on 16 August 2015 by Penguin Random House and a young adult adaptation was published by Delacorte Press on 18 September 2018. The memoir was later adapted into a 2019 movie of the same name by Destin Daniel Cretton and, commemorating the film, "Movie Tie-In" editions were released for both versions of the memoir on 3 December 2019 by imprints of Penguin Random House.

The memoir has received many honors and won multiple non-fiction book awards. It was a New York Times best seller and spent more than 230 weeks on the paperback nonfiction best sellers list. It won the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, given annually by the American Library Association. Stevenson's acceptance speech for the award, given at the Library Association's annual meeting, was said to be the best that many of the librarians had ever heard, and was published with acclaim by Publishers Weekly. The book was also awarded the 2015 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction and the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Nonfiction. It was named one of "10 of the decade's most influential books" in December 2019 by CNN.

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