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Doing Justice
A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law
Doing Justice
A Prosecutor’s Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law
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Description
A Guardian Pick for 2019
The People vs. Putin.
The People vs. the Mafia.
The People vs. Wall Street.
For eight years Preet Bharara prosecuted some of the most high-stakes crimes in the world. Billion-dollar frauds. Terrorist attacks. Russian espionage. These were the cases that gripped America – and he was the man making sure people answered.
In Doing Justice Bharara lifts the lid on his time as America's prosecutor for justice, showing in intimate and explosive detail how the criminal justice system works from the inside. Spanning history, his own fabled cases and the actions of key players in the upper echelons of power, this is a book about what it means to make the right decisions at the toughest of moments, and about what the state of justice in America reveals about today.
Product details
Published | 19 Mar 2019 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 368 |
ISBN | 9781526613905 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Doing Justice is about ordinary fallibility, and how those responsible for the dispensation of justice are regular humans, prone to act as humans do . . . Filled with sobering stories about error and – in the more beautiful, memorable cases – ingenuity, determination, redemption
New York Times
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At its most powerful, Doing Justice works as a metaphorical survival guide for the Trump era. As with everything Bharara does, he writes in a tone that is calm and considered, a warm bath after the outrage of Trump's daily tweets. That's what has made him such an unlikely superstar following his dismissal at Trump's hands
Guardian
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Bharara positions Doing Justice as a treatise on “the rule of law and faith in the rule of law” at a time when both are under threat . . . His reflection on the role of the justice system in America is an effort both to make the inner workings of that system accessible to people unfamiliar with what criminal justice looks like from the perspective of law enforcement, and to suggest how people might apply ideals and habits honed in the courtroom to the patterns of everyday life
Washington Post
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A vivid memoir of a critical job, a primer on the toughest questions of prosecutorial ethics, and a reminder of the drama inherent in life in the courtroom arena
Jeffrey Toobin
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Bharara expertly weaves real-life stories of law and disorder into a compelling examination of our collective understanding of justice . . . Vital and urgent
The Secret Barrister
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An elegant, philosophical and, at times, moving memoir of what it is like to serve as America's most high-profile legal official. Deserves to be widely read beyond the legal world
Financial Times