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bookshelves: possible-purchase
Read this article and thought the book would be worth getting along with the one Sarah authored when she comes to OK next month. Go Sarah! ]]>
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bookshelves: recommended
See Morning Star's excellent and glowing review! Thank you dear friend! ]]>
bookshelves: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2009, church-documents, classic, currently-reading, must-have, non-fiction, prayer, psychology, religion, scripture, spiritual, theology, worth-reading-over-and-over------
Rereading this with Benedict's Book Club...should reread this at least once @ year anyway!
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Have read this book so many times I have lost count. It is WONDERFUL!!! After the Bible it is the most popular book in Christianity and a well-deserved/earned reputation too. ]]>
bookshelves: 2009, biography, books-on-books, crime, history, non-fiction
Originally I wanted to give this book five stars for its readability, research and relevance. My primary reservation was the overall disturbing nature of the book. It's about an horrendous travesty of justice in my own state against two innocent men which explored the all-too common occurance of incarceration and even execution of those who never had anything to do with the crime(s) in question.
Upon doing a little more research, I discovered that the author Mr. Grisham, may not have not done the sterling job I thought he did in researching and presenting the facts in this case. Or perhaps, I should say, he did his research very well, but he let his own personal agenda carry him away at times in how he presented those facts--that agenda being that corrupt officials allow themselves to be pressured into putting the innocent behind bars.
In this book, Mr. Grisham seems bent on creating a classic villian out of the prosecutor, Bill Peterson. After finishing the book, I happened upon Mr. Peterson's view of the situation which offers a different perspective on Grisham's protrayal of events in his book. According to Peterson, The Innocent Man isn't non-fiction because Grisham failed to portray Peterson's side of the story, leaves out critical information and 'compromised (the truth) in favor of dramatic license'. Reading just some of what Peterson says at his website, I'm inclined to agree with him.
That Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz deserved and were denied justice, I have no doubt. That the events unfolded quite as they are portrayed by Grisham, I have more than a few.
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Heard John Grisham speak about The Innocent Man Murder and Injustice in a Small Town on the 13th of October 2009 at Oklahoma City University School of Law. The book itself concerns the wrongful conviction of two men in Ada, OK but in Mr. Grisham's address he said that wrong arrests and executions are a national phenomenon and problem.
It was a worthwhile event which not included a fascinating talk by the noted author but also selections from the play, The Exonerated A Play. ]]>
bookshelves: recommended
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