The other wes moore character biography

Non-fiction book by Wes Moore

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates is a 2010 nonfiction book by Wes Moore, the current governor of Maryland. Published by Spiegel & Grau, it describes two men of the same name who had very different life histories.

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Tavis Smiley wrote the afterword.^[1]

The author states, "The other Wes Moore is a drug dealer, a robber, a murderer. I am a Rhodes scholar, a White House Fellow, a former Army officer. Yet our situations could easily have been reversed."^[2] Jen Steele of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel wrote that "Moore's message is that it takes a village – and a bit of luck – to successfully navigate the negative surroundings where so many urban youths grow up."^[3] Dave Rosenthal of The Baltimore Sun stated that the contrast of the Moores was similar to that of different sections of Baltimore, which have neighborhoods of varying levels of quality and safe The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates | Characters VISYC