Both biography and autobiography, New York Times Best Seller The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates contrasts the life of Wes Moore, an author, Rhodes Scholar, Army veteran, and former CEO of the poverty-fighting Robinhood Foundation, with the dramatically different experiences of another man of the same name. Also born in Baltimore, the other Wes Moore is serving a life sentence in prison. Published in 2010, The Other Wes Moore offers a street-level view of urban American poverty in the 1980s through the early 2000s.
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