A Case Study in Class- A book review

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates is a memoir with a twist. Wes Moore is a young black man who rose from the drug, crime and poverty-stricken streets of Baltimore to attain prestigious academic
honors. The twist is that Wes Moore is also a man who killed a
Baltimore policeman while robbing a jewelry store. These two men grew
up in the same neighborhood, both faced the same life obstacles, but
they ended up on very different paths. One a Rhodes Scholar, interning
for Condoleezza Rice, the other was behind bars for the rest of his
life. It is the name of the latter individual that drove the author to
reach out to him, to attempt to understand how they ended up in very
different places.

Set in Baltimore we are given two boys with similar backgrounds and
choices. The two Wes’ lived in the same neighborhood, both were raised
by single mothers and both had early age brushes with law enforcement...


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