Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption / Bryan Stevenson
By: Stevenson, Bryan [author.].
Publisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, ©2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 2019 Spiegel & Grau trade paperback edition.Description: 351 p: 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593133934; 0593133935; 9780812994520; 0812994523; 9780812984965; 081298496X.Subject(s): Stevenson, Bryan | Equal Justice Initiative | Social reformers -- Biography | Lawyers -- Biography | Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States | Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United StatesGenre/Form: Autobiographies. | Autobiographies. | Biographies. | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | KF373.S743 A3 2019 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000018465 |
"Now a major motion picture"--Cover
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-340) and index
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
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice