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Other Wes Moore : One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore (2011, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100385528205

ISBN-139780385528207

eBay Product ID (ePID)127346025

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Book TitleOther Wes Moore : One Name, Two Fates

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMinority Studies, Sociology / General, Personal Memoirs, General, Violence in Society, Inspirational & Personal Growth, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Publication Year2011

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Young Adult Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorWes Moore

Book SeriesOne World Essentials Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight9.5 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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ReviewsPraise forThe Other Wes Moore "Moving and inspiring,The Other Wes Mooreis a story for our times." -Alex Kotlowitz, author ofThere Are No Children Here "A tense, compelling story and an inspirational guide for all who care about helping young people." -Juan Williams, author ofEnough "This should be required reading for anyone who is trying to understand what is happening to young men in our inner cities." -Geoffrey Canada, author ofFist Stick Knife Gun "The Other Wes Mooregets to the heart of the matter on faith, education, respect, the hard facts of incarceration, and the choices and challenges we all face. It's educational and inspiring." -Ben Carson, M.D., author ofGifted Hands "Wes Moore is destined to become one of the most powerful and influential leaders of this century. You need only read this book to understand why." -William S. Cohen, former U.S. senator and secretary of defense "This intriguing narrative is enlightening, encouraging, and empowering. Read these words, absorb their meanings, and create your own plan to act and leave a legacy." -Tavis Smiley, from the Afterword , "Startling and revelatory . . . a rocketing real-life narrative."--Baltimore Sun "A moving book . . . a call to arms."-- Chicago Tribune "This intriguing narrative is enlightening, encouraging, and empowering. Read these words, absorb their meanings, and create your own plan to act and leave a legacy."--Tavis Smiley, from the Afterword "[A] compassionate memoir--a story that explores how some survive and others sink in urban battlegrounds."-- People "Moore vividly and powerfully describes not just the culture of the streets but how it feels to be a boy growing up in a world where violence makes you a man."-- O: The Oprah Magazine "Inspiring . . . a story for our times."--Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here, "Startling and revelatory . . . a rocketing real-life narrative."-Baltimore Sun "A moving book . . . a call to arms."- Chicago Tribune "This intriguing narrative is enlightening, encouraging, and empowering. Read these words, absorb their meanings, and create your own plan to act and leave a legacy."-Tavis Smiley, from the Afterword "[A] compassionate memoir-a story that explores how some survive and others sink in urban battlegrounds."- People "Moore vividly and powerfully describes not just the culture of the streets but how it feels to be a boy growing up in a world where violence makes you a man."- O: The Oprah Magazine "Inspiring . . . a story for our times."-Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here, "Startling and revelatory . . . a rocketing real-life narrative."-BaltimoreSun "A moving book . . . a call to arms."-Chicago Tribune "This intriguing narrative is enlightening, encouraging, and empowering. Read these words, absorb their meanings, and create your own plan to act and leave a legacy."-Tavis Smiley, from the Afterword "[A] compassionate memoir-a story that explores how some survive and others sink in urban battlegrounds."-People "Moore vividly and powerfully describes not just the culture of the streets but how it feels to be a boy growing up in a world where violence makes you a man."-O: The Oprah Magazine "Inspiring . . . a story for our times."-Alex Kotlowitz, author ofThere Are No Children Here, "Startling and revelatory . . . a rocketing real-life narrative."--Baltimore Sun "A moving book . . . a call to arms."-- Chicago Tribune "This intriguing narrative is enlightening, encouraging, and empowering. Read these words, absorb their meanings, and create your own plan to act and leave a legacy."--Tavis Smiley, from the Afterword "[A] compassionate memoir--a story that explores how some survive and others sink in urban battlegrounds."-- People "Moore vividly and powerfully describes not just the culture of the streets but how it feels to be a boy growing up in a world where violence makes you a man."-- O: The Oprah Magazine "Inspiring . . . a story for our times."--Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here

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SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the governor of Maryland, the "compassionate" ( People ), "startling" (Baltimore Sun ), "moving" ( Chicago Tribune ) true story of two kids with the same name: 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. The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. 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 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., The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other. Both grew up fatherless in similar Baltimore neighborhoods and had difficult childhoods; both hung out on street corners with their crews; both ran into trouble with the police. How, then, did one grow up to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader, while the other ended up a convicted murderer serving a life sentence? Wes Moore, the author of this fascinating book, sets out to answer this profound question. In alternating 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., NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the governor of Maryland, the "compassionate" ( People ), "startling" (Baltimore Sun ), "moving" ( Chicago Tribune ) true story of two kids with the same name: 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. The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. 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 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.