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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates is a biography and autobiography first published in 2010
. It contrast the life of its author, Wes Moore—a 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. The Other Wes Moore offers a street-level view of urban American poverty in the 1980s through the early 2000s. The author would go on to be elected as the first Black governor of Maryland in 2022.Read the full book summary, the full book analysis, and explanations of important quotes from The Other Wes Moore.
