The other Wes Moore / Moore, Wes

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ISBN13: 
9780385528207
9780385528191
9780329815752
9780606264907
9781588369697
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2009041663
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975.2

The other Wes Moore

Submitted by khenkes on Tue, 12/28/2021 - 17:07

Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a year of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.

The other Wes Moore

Submitted by khenkes on Wed, 10/02/2019 - 15:46

Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a year of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.

The other Wes Moore

one name, two fates
  • Moore, Wes
2011
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

The other Wes Moore

one name, two fates
  • Moore, Wes
2010
Wes Moore discusses how he met and interviewed another man also named Wes Moore who followed a very different and destructive life than his own, even though they grew up close to one another in the same dangerous neighborhood. Moore outlines the life decisions that led each of them in different directions and provides black-and-white photographs.
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