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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption was proposed by the Chancellors Sat Feb 06, 2016 3:08 am.

It had 11 views before being selected for March 16 by the attendees of our 2/17/2016 meeting.

However, the original proposal did not contain much information about the book or its author. Accordingly, the following is substituted:

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From: ReadingLiberally-SaltLake@johnkarls.com
To: ReadingLiberallyEmailList@johnkarls.com
Bcc: The Approximately 150 Recipients of Our Weekly E-mail
Subject: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption – March 16
Date: Sat, February 20, 2016
Time: 3:01 am MDT – 4:05 am MDT (due to 100/hour limit)
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Dear Friends,

Our next meeting is Wed evening March 16 at the Salt Lake Public Library (210 East 400 South).

NB: For those who like to avoid having to Skype during vacations, our future meeting dates are:

Wed Mar 16 (to maintain minimum 4-week gap from Feb 17)
Wed Apr 20 (Apr 13 is the Library’s semi-annual book sale)
Wed May 18 (to maintain minimum 4-week gap)
Wed June 15 (to maintain minimum 4-week gap)

NB: And for long-range planners, though the Library does not accept reservations for the last half of each year until May 15:

Wed July 13
Wed Aug 10
Wed Sep 14
Wed Oct 19 (Oct 12 is Yom Kippur)
Wed Nov 15 (to maintain minimum 4-week gap)
Wed Dec 14


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OUR FOCUS BOOK

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson ($10.07 paperback + shipping or $11.99 Kindle from Amazon.com – 368 pages).

New York Times Bestseller -- Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Boston Globe - The Seattle Times - Esquire - Time.


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AUTHOR BIO

“Bryan Stevenson is America’s young Nelson Mandela, a brilliant lawyer fighting with courage and conviction to guarantee justice for all. Just Mercy should be read by people of conscience in every civilized country in the world to discover what happens when revenge and retribution replace justice and mercy. It is as gripping to read as any legal thriller, and what hangs in the balance is nothing less than the soul of a great nation.” -- Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and South Africa’s first black Anglican Archbishop.

NYU Law School Prof. Bryan Stevenson (JD - Harvard Law School and MA in Public Policy - Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government) is the founder and director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization providing legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.

A prolific best-selling author, Prof. Stevenson won the Olof Palme prize in 2000, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Non-Fiction in 2014 and the Dayton Literary Prize for Non-Fiction in 2015.


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FOCUS-BOOK INFO & BOOK REVIEW EXCERPTS

“Not since Atticus Finch has a fearless and committed lawyer made such a difference in the American South. Though larger than life, Atticus exists only in fiction. Bryan Stevenson, however, 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. Just Mercy is his inspiring and powerful story.”—John Grisham

“Just Mercy is every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so. . . . [It] 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. But at the same time that [Bryan] 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. . . . 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

“A searing, moving and infuriating memoir . . . Bryan Stevenson may, indeed, be America’s Mandela. For decades he has fought judges, prosecutors and police on behalf of those who are impoverished, black or both. . . . 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. We need to wake up. And that is why we need a Mandela in this country.”—Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times

“Unfairness in the justice system is a major theme of our age. . . . This book brings new life to the story by placing it in two affecting contexts: [Bryan] Stevenson’s life work and the deep strain of racial injustice in American life. . . . You don’t have to read too long to start cheering for this man. Against tremendous odds, Stevenson has worked to free scores of people from wrongful or excessive punishment, arguing five times before the Supreme Court. . . . The book extols not his nobility but that of the cause, and reads like a call to action for all that remains to be done. . . . The message of the book, hammered home by dramatic examples of one man’s refusal to sit quietly and countenance horror, is that evil can be overcome, a difference can be made. Just Mercy will make you upset and it will make you hopeful. . . . Stevenson has been angry about [the criminal justice system] for years, and we are all the better for it.”—Ted Conover, The New York Times Book Review

“Inspiring . . . a work of style, substance and clarity . . . Stevenson is not only a great lawyer, he’s also a gifted writer and storyteller.”—The Washington Post

“As deeply moving, poignant and powerful a book as has been, and maybe ever can be, written about the death penalty.”—The Financial Times


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RSVP’s REQUESTED BY NEXT FRIDAY

In accordance with our quorum-policy revision of 6/12/2013, instead of waiting until the last week before each monthly meeting to request RSVP's and canceling if we do not have our minimum quorum of six, RSVP's are requested in our first-of-the-monthly-cycle weekly e-mail.

Those who have RSVP’d will be informed immediately when we reach six so they can proceed to read the materials with assurance a discussion will take place.

If there are not six RSVP's by 11:59 pm next Friday, then next week's weekly e-mail will announce that the 3/16/2016 meeting is cancelled.


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Non-Utah-residents (and residents who are out of town) are invited to participate in our meeting via Skype.

If you would like to do so, please press your reply button and type “request participation via Skype” and we will contact you to make appropriate arrangements.


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We hope to see all of you on March 16th.

Your friend,

John K.

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We Have Our Quorum

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---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: We Have Our Quorum
From: readingliberally-saltlake@johnkarls.com
Date: Sun, February 21, 2016 4:29 am - MDT
To: ReadingLiberallyEmailList@johnkarls.com
Bcc: The RSVP’s Listed Below Under “To”
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To:

Denise Chancellor
Thomas Chancellor
Ted Gurney
Tucker Gurney
Mimi Himelman
Nancy Kemp
George Kunath
Yours Truly

Dear Friends

We have our minimum quorum for March 16, so each of us is assured that reading Just Mercy will not be in vain.

Please permit me to wish each of you Happy Reading!!!

Your friend,

John K.

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