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 ...

Some discrepancies are rooted in the opening lines on the book jacket of his 2010 bestseller, “The Other Wes Moore”: “Two kids named Wes Moore were born blocks apart within a year of each other.