The other Wes Moore had run-ins with the law. He tried to get out of the drug business and earned his G.E.D and graduated from a jobs program, but he struggled to make enough to support himself ...

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, is one of 2011's most popular common reads. In the book, author Wes Moore tracks his own life, alongside the fate of another man of the same name.

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 ...

Part autobiography, part dramatic narrative, "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" (2011) is a book that defies genre, expectations and even — for the most part — cynicism. The common reading ...

Unfortunately, as good as the book is, The Other Wes Moore is likely to reinforce a common misconception about the backgrounds of the millions of young men whose failure in school deprives them of ...

In December of 2000, Wes Moore saw his name in the newspaper when The Baltimore Sun ran a blurb about how he’d just been awarded a prestigious Rhodes scholarship to do post graduate work at Oxford.