He takes a hard look at the system that is meant to safeguard its citizen’s rights but has become a cruel way to mistreat vulnerable members of society. So how about we hear some real, hands-on experiences from someone who actually has worked as a lawyer inside America’s prisons and courtrooms? In Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson gives us exactly that. Your average person may not know it, but there are actually a lot of injustices happening there. But maybe not so shockingly, the real-life criminal justice system is pretty different. Maybe you feel like you know a lot about America’s criminal justice system because you love shows like Law & Order. Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*:
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In addition, Gibbon argued that Christianity created a belief that a better life existed after death. Romans, he believed, became unwilling to live the tougher, "manly" military lifestyle. They had become weak, using barbarian mercenaries to defend their Empire, who then became so numerous that they were able to take over the Empire. Gibbon gave an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell.Īccording to Gibbon, the Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions because its citizens gradually lost their "civic virtue". This led to Gibbon being called the first "modern historian of ancient Rome". Because of its relative objectivity and heavy use of primary sources, its methodology became a model for later historians. The work covers the history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catholic Church from 98 to 1590 AD, and discusses the decline of the Roman Empire in the East and its fall in the West. Published in six volumes, from volume I in 1776 to volumes IV, V, VI in 1788–89. The book traces the Roman Empire-and Western civilization as a whole-from the late first century AD to the fall of the Eastern or Byzantine Empire. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is the short title of an important book by the 18th century English historian Edward Gibbon. Even without the unicorns, it’s a vision of sunlit uplands that is as close as the English are ever going to get to the Brexit they thought they voted for. In spite of its politics, The Man Who Died Twice is a highly entertaining affair, with plenty of good jokes and a twisty plot. Instead this is a world with few complexities and no bad language, in which foreigns know their place, and plucky have-a-go British heroes with bulldog spirit always triumph over the baddies and are home in time for cocoa. But even so, it would have been nice if Osman showed the slightest knowledge of the brutal realities of child slavery in “ county lines” and the operation of the British drugs economy if he is going to include such things in his books.īut that would probably upset the soft-core fantasy for Brexity readers. In it roughish-diamond coppers think nothing of fitting up suspects they just know are guilty, and the book’s pensioner heroes take the law into their own hands with the casual disdain for due process of the most knuckle headed of authoritarians.ĭoubtless this will play well with the Daily Mail readers who are a core demographic in this book’s audience. The Man Who Died Twice is a more overtly right-wing work than its predecessor. |