| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 233 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Study Program |
UG RL 7.1 11.0 144360 |
| Indexed In: |
Library Journal, April 2010 |
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Booklist starred, May 2010 |
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Pub Weekly, March 2010 |
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Kirkus Review, March 2010 |
| Summary |
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. |
| Audience |
Adult Follett Library Resources |
| Subject |
Moore, Wes, 1978-
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Moore, Wes, 1975-
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Youth -- Conduct of life.
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African Americans -- Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions.
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Violence -- Social conditions -- History.
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Prisoners -- Maryland -- Biography.
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Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions.
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Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0385528191 |
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