Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (Spiegel & Grau). Rhodes Scholar, investment banker and former aide to Condoleezza Rice. Credits. Larry Mantle. Host, AirTalk ...

The other Wes Moore became a drug dealer, a thief and a convicted killer. Instead of stoking the “good” Moore with a sense of pride and accomplishment, the contrast bedeviled and haunted him.

Struck by the similar name, Moore writes that he couldn’t forget about the other Wes Moore. He contacted him in prison, corresponded and visited. This book was born of that connection.

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 ...

Moore came to national attention in 2010 for his first book, The Other Wes Moore, a hybrid memoir meditating on an eerie coincidence: two Black boys with the same name, born into similar ...

“The Other Wes Moore” is the result of that letter and subsequent correspondence between the two men, each eager to meet his namesake and to try to understand how their lives – similar at ...

Wes Moore talked about his book [The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates] (Spiegel & Grau, 2010). In 2000, Wes Moore had recently been named a Rhodes Scholar in his final year of college at Johns ...

Marylanders deserve better than trying to guess if the man at the podium is just the other, other Wes Moore. Yuripzy Morgan is an attorney and former talk radio host who lives in Anne Arundel County.

He wrote: “The other Wes Moore is a drug dealer, a robber, a murderer. I am a Rhodes scholar, a White House Fellow, a former Army officer.” ...

The Other Wes Moore: One Name and Two Fates—A Story of Tragedy and Hope Wes Moore, . . Random/Spiegel & Grau, $25 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-385-52819-1 ...