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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
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This book was very interesting. Seeing the two different paths. Reminds me that things can change.
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This is a fascinating premise (well, true story). Two strangers with the same name grow up in fairly similar neighborhoods around the same time and eventually take two drastically different paths. 4/5 stars for the intellectaul fodder these anecdotes supply. While "The Other Wes Moore" did not resolve as many questions as I had, it has fostered many good discussions. Quick read.
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This was an interesting and well written account of two guys, about the same age, born and raised not in identical but similar West Baltimore households, both named Wes Moore. The author, despite some dalliances with criminal behavior, escaped the drug-dealer lifestyle and became a decorated military man with prestigious academic honors, while the other Wes Moore landed in prison serving a life sentence.
I read this book quickly over the course of a few days, when my son was assigned it for school. We both thoroughly enjoyed it. The purpose is is interesting - Wes Moore, Army vet, entrepreneur, and philanthropist always wondered what had happened to the other Wes Moore who also knew the reality of Baltimore City. Both Wes’s mom tried desperately to keep them out of trouble, but only one Wes Moore was able to conquer his environment through a series of pivotal moments, connections, resilience and personal responsibility. The author Wes Moore could never get the Other Wes Moore out of his mind, and so returns to MD to interview him. This book stemmed from a series of interviews spanning several years and is interesting and different. The writing is no-frills, but clear and frank. I’ve seen some reviews that complain that the author Wes Moore failed to discern what is obvious to readers- that the mothers’ decisions led to their divergent paths; however, the author addressed this so eloquently in the epilogue. We as humans often try to use root cause analysis to identify and address the factors behind a troubling issue; however, multivariate analysis is tricky. It would seem from this story then, that it is not just one but the right combination of protective factors (peculiar to a person) that made the difference.
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Memoirs are hard to pull off, too much information and they can be boring and too little and they’re trite. This one works nicely. Fascinating story.