Discovering Wes Moore
New York : Delacorte Press, [2012]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 160 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
Contents:
For keeps -- Courtside in the Bronx -- The Chameleon -- Kid Kupid's Last strike -- Plebe -- Refuge -- Airborne -- Full circle -- Watende -- The other Wes Moore -- The return.
Subjects:
Moore, Wes, 1978- -- Childhood and youth.
African American men -- Biography.
Youth -- Conduct of life.
African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Criminals -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.
Moore, Wes, 1978- -- Childhood and youth.
African American men -- Biography.
Youth -- Conduct of life.
African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Criminals -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.
Target Audience: 840L
ISBN:
9780385741675 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T BIOGRAPHY Moore | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Teen Biography | In |