two Kids With The Same Name Were Born Blocks Apart In The Same Decaying City Within A Year 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.
in December Of 2000, The Baltimore sun ran A Small Piece About Wes Moore, A Local Student Who Had Just Received A Rhodes Scholarship. The Same Paper Ran A Huge Story About Four Young Men Who Had 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 Of Their Names Was Wes Moore.
wes Moore, The Rhodes Scholar, Became Obsessed With The Story Of This Man He'd Never Met But Who Shared Much More Than Space In The Same Newspaper. Both Had Grown Up In Similar Neighborhoods And Had Had Difficult Childhoods. After Following The Story Of The...
publishers Weekly
two Hauntingly Similar Boys Take Starkly Different Paths In This Searing Tale Of The Ghetto. Moore, An Investment Banker, Rhodes Scholar, And Former Aide To Condoleezza Rice, Was Intrigued When He Learned That Another Wes Moore, His Age And From The Same Area Of Greater Baltimore, Was Wanted For Killing A Cop. Meeting His Double And Delving Into His Life Reveals Deeper Likenesses: Raised In Fatherless Families And Poor Black Neighborhoods, Both Felt The Lure Of The Money And Status To Be Gained From Dealing Drugs. That The Author Resisted The Criminal Underworld While The Other Wes Drifted Into It Is Chalked Up Less To Character Than To The Influence Of Relatives, Mentors, And Expectations That Pushed Against His Own Delinquent Impulses, To The Point Of Exiling Him To Military School. Moore Writes With Subtlety And Insight About The Plight Of Ghetto Youth, Viewing It From Inside And Out; He Probes Beneath The Pathologies To Reveal The Pressures—poverty, A Lack Of Prospects, The Need To Respond To Violence With Greater Violence—that Propelled The Other Wes To His Doom. The Result Is A Moving Exploration Of Roads Not Taken. (may 4)
Categories:
- History
- United States
- State & Local
- United States
Publisher : One World
Author : Moore, Wes
Language : English
Edition : Illustrated
Published :2011-01-11
Number Of Pages : 272
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0385528205
ISBN-13 : 9780385528207
Item weight : 0.45 lb
Dimensions : 0.7 in x 5.2 in x 7.9 in
Returns Policy
You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).
You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the 'Complete Orders' link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.
Shipping
We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.
When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.
Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.