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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore

Two men are named Wes Moore.  Both are in their early 30s and grew up in fatherless homes in the ghettos of greater Baltimore.  The author is a former army officer, Johns Hopkins graduate, Rhodes Scholar, and investment banker.  The other Wes Moore is a drug dealer wanted for killing a police officer.  This memoir is a moving examination of the influences that direct the lives of disadvantaged youth in America, and of the divide between lives of achievement and lives of tragedy.

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