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| Original Title: | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates |
| ISBN: | 0385528191 (ISBN13: 9780385528191) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir and Autobiography (2010) |
Wes Moore
Hardcover | Pages: 233 pages Rating: 3.83 | 33200 Users | 4214 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates |
| Author | : | Wes Moore |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 233 pages |
| Published | : | April 27th 2010 by Spiegel & Grau |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Academic. School. Biography Memoir. Sociology. Audiobook |
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Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, 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. In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore. Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen? That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had grown up in similar neighborhoods and had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies. Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.Rating Based On Books The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Ratings: 3.83 From 33200 Users | 4214 ReviewsColumn Based On Books The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
I literally finished this book cover-to-cover in less than 24hrs. My pending book club meeting this weekend played a role in my desire to finish quickly *smile*, but this was definitely a page turner. Ive always been intrigued by the lives and struggles of people growing up in difficult neighborhoods, and under less than favorable circumstances. Maybe that is my sheltered naiveté shining through, who knows. Throughout the book, my goal was to find the turning point the decision, scenario,I think the premise for this was super interesting, and it had a lot of potential to be a really heartfelt read, because I quite liked some of the scenes, but in the long run the book fell a little flat for me. It was a lot of "tell", not "show", and it started to feel like a timeline of life events that I think could have been improved with more emotional emphasis. I also really loved the bits about South Africa and apartheid, and having just finished reading Trevor Noah's Born a Crime: Stories
This book was disappointing. It's based on a flawed premise that the story of two guys with the same name in the same city is inherently interesting.But I thought this book was mundane and undiscerning. It never answered the question it asked, namely: Why did one of the guys named Wes end up in prison, and the other Wes end up with a college degree and a successful career? The author writes about his tough childhood, and eventually his family sent him to military school to straighten up. The
Two Wes Moores diverged in a yellow wood (called Baltimore)And sorry he could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long Wes Moore the Rhodes Scholar stoodAnd looked down one as far as he couldBy interviewing the other Wes Moore in Jessup Correctional InstitutionWhere the path disappears in the undergrowthOf drug-dealing, robbery, and accomplice to murder.Wes took the other, as just as fair,Through military school, time in Afghanistan, and ultimately the business world,And having perhaps the
Maybe my expectations were too high for this book: I had seen its author on Tavis Smiley's television show and read a couple of (very) positive reviews of it, so I really expected to be blown away by The Other Wes Moore. In a word, I was not. It's an interesting story of two men who share a name and a background who choose very different paths. This is a good beginning; unfortunately, the execution thereafter leaves something to be desired.The author, the "good" Wes Moore, begins life in a tough
I think the premise for this was super interesting, and it had a lot of potential to be a really heartfelt read, because I quite liked some of the scenes, but in the long run the book fell a little flat for me. It was a lot of "tell", not "show", and it started to feel like a timeline of life events that I think could have been improved with more emotional emphasis. I also really loved the bits about South Africa and apartheid, and having just finished reading Trevor Noah's Born a Crime: Stories
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