Wes Moore, the Johns Hopkins grad and Rhodes scholar, has received a lot of attention for “The Other Wes Moore.” The book compares two lives: his own and that of a Baltimore doppelganger who ...

“Two kids with the same name, liv­ing in the same city,” Wes Moore’s website explains about the book. “One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, dec­o­rated com­bat vet­eran, White House Fel­low, and ...

This article is more than 10 years old. As readers of his bestselling book "The Other Wes Moore" know, Wes Moore was the child of a single mother and had a troubled childhood.

Moore is the chief executive officer of Robin Hood, one of the largest anti-poverty forces in the nation. He is a bestselling author, a combat veteran and a social entrepreneur. Moore’s first book, ...