Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
Spiegel & Grau, 2015. 368 pages. $17.00 paperback.
This highly praised reprinted book recently was featured in the HBO documentary "True Justice," and is being made into a film starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx. It is, as the Amazon blurb states: " 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 book also is a winner of the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction.
Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor of law at New York University Law School. He has cases for many condemned prisoners, argued five times before the US Supreme Court, and won praise for his work fighting bias against the poor and people of color.
