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THE OTHER WES MOORE
One Name, Two Fates
"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.
Wes Moore has become "the future of the Democratic Party," according to Politico (and elsewhere) and has a national profile after winning the governorship of Maryland. Bret Stephens (conservative! columnist in the New York Times) wrote "one Democrat I am excited about is Maryland's Wes Moore, whom I know slightly and impresses me greatly. His book, "The Other Wes Moore will soon be required reading the way Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father" used to be. And, just to be clear, that's me saying that Moore could one day be president."
Wes Moore is the 63rd Governor of the state of Maryland. He is Maryland's first Black Governor in the state's 246-year history, and is the third African American elected Governor in the history of the United States. He was a captain with the 82nd Airborne Division where he led soldiers in combat in Afghanistan, as well as a Rhodes Scholar and a White House Fellow, advising on issues of national security and international relations. He was the CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, one of the largest poverty-fighting organizations in the country. His other books include Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of An American City, The Work: Searching for a Life that Matters, This Way Home: A Novel for Young Adults, and Discovering Wes Moore. Moore and his wife Dawn Flythe Moore have two children.
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.
Wes Moore has become "the future of the Democratic Party," according to Politico (and elsewhere) and has a national profile after winning the governorship of Maryland. Bret Stephens (conservative! columnist in the New York Times) wrote "one Democrat I am excited about is Maryland's Wes Moore, whom I know slightly and impresses me greatly. His book, "The Other Wes Moore will soon be required reading the way Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father" used to be. And, just to be clear, that's me saying that Moore could one day be president."
Wes Moore is the 63rd Governor of the state of Maryland. He is Maryland's first Black Governor in the state's 246-year history, and is the third African American elected Governor in the history of the United States. He was a captain with the 82nd Airborne Division where he led soldiers in combat in Afghanistan, as well as a Rhodes Scholar and a White House Fellow, advising on issues of national security and international relations. He was the CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, one of the largest poverty-fighting organizations in the country. His other books include Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of An American City, The Work: Searching for a Life that Matters, This Way Home: A Novel for Young Adults, and Discovering Wes Moore. Moore and his wife Dawn Flythe Moore have two children.
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Published 2023-05-10 by One World (Random House) |