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Author Moore, Wes, 1978-

Title The other Wes Moore : one name, two fates / Wes Moore.

Publication Info. New York : One World, [2010]
©2010

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 1st Floor Tilford Coll  975.2 M787Bm 2010    ---  Available
Description xiv, 233 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Contents Part I. Fathers and angels -- Is daddy coming with us? -- In search of home -- Foreign ground -- Part II. Choices and second chances -- Marking territory -- Lost -- Hunted -- Part III. Paths taken and expectations fulfilled -- The land that God forgot -- Surrounded -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- A call to action / Tavis Smiley -- Resource guide -- Acknowledgments -- A Reader's guide.
Summary Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years 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.
Subject Moore, Wes, 1978- -- Childhood and youth.
Youth -- Conduct of life.
African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.
African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Violence -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 20th century.
Prisoners -- Maryland -- Biography.
Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.
Moore, Wes, 1978- (OCoLC)fst01915522
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
Prisoners. (OCoLC)fst01077103
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Violence. (OCoLC)fst01167224
Youth -- Conduct of life. (OCoLC)fst01183372
Maryland. (OCoLC)fst01204739
Maryland -- Baltimore. (OCoLC)fst01204292
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780385528191
0385528191

 
    
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