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Title:
The other Wes Moore : one name, two fates
Personal Author EPSB:
Wes, Moore
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.
Other Title:
One Name Two Fates.
Year Published:
2010-2011
Physical Description:
xiv, 250 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Edition:
Spiegel & Grau trade pbk. ed.
Personal Subject:
Moore, Wes, 1978- -Childhood and youth.

Moore, Wes, 1975- -Childhood and youth.

Moore, Wes, 1978-

Moore, Wes, 1975-
Subject:
Youth -- Conduct of life.

African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.

African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Violence -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 20th century.

Prisoners -- Maryland -- Biography.

African Americans -- Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.

African Americans -- Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions.

Violence -- Social conditions -- History.
Geographic Term:
Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.

Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780385528207
Publisher:
New York : Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks, 2011, c2010.
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