![]() ![]() ![]() This book brings new life to the story by placing it in two affecting contexts: Stevenson's life work and the deep strain of racial injustice in American life. ![]() "Unfairness in the justice system is a major theme of our age. ![]() And that is why we need a Mandela in this country."-Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times Injustice is easy not to notice when it affects people different from ourselves that helps explain the obliviousness of our own generation to inequity today. For decades he has fought judges, prosecutors and police on behalf of those who are impoverished, black or both. Bryan Stevenson may, indeed, be America's Mandela. "A searing, moving and infuriating memoir. Just Mercy is a remarkable amalgam, at once a searing indictment of American criminal justice and a stirring testament to the salvation that fighting for the vulnerable sometimes yields."-David Cole, The New York Review of Books But at the same time that Stevenson tells an utterly damning story of deep-seated and widespread injustice, he also recounts instances of human compassion, understanding, mercy, and justice that offer hope. demonstrates, as powerfully as any book on criminal justice that I've ever read, the extent to which brutality, unfairness, and racial bias continue to infect criminal law in the United States. "Just Mercy is every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so. ![]()
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