“Bryan Stevenson is one of my personal heroes, perhaps the most inspiring and influential crusader for justice alive today, and Just Mercy is peculiar. Just Mercy is his inspiring and powerful story.” -John Grisham Bryan Stevenson, on the other hand, is very much alive and doing God’s work fighting for the poor, the oppressed, the voiceless, the vulnerable, the outcast, and those with no hope. Though larger than life, Atticus exists only in fiction.

“Not since Atticus Finch has a fearless and committed lawyer made such a difference in the American South. “As deeply moving, poignant and powerful a book as has been, and maybe ever can be, written about the death penalty.” -The Financial Times Stevenson is not only a great lawyer, he’s also a gifted author and storyteller.” - The Washington Post Just Mercy will make you upset and it’ll make you hopeful.” -Ted Conover, The New York Times Book Review is that evil can be overcome, a difference can be made. “You don’t have to read too long to start cheering for this man. Bryan Stevenson may, indeed, be America’s Mandela.” -Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times a searing indictment of American criminal justice and a stirring testament to the salvation that fighting for the vulnerable now and again yields.” -David Cole, The New York Review of Books “Every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so. 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. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship-and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice ceaselessly. 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. 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 BookĪ powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice-from one of the vital brilliant and influential lawyers of our timeīryan 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. #1 New York Times Bestseller | Named one of the crucial Best Books of the Year by The New York Times

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