Discovering Wes Moore
New York : Random House/Listening Library, [2013]
Format: Audiobook on CD
Description: 4 sound discs (241 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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 -- Rookie -- Refuge -- Airborne -- History calling -- Watende -- The other Wes Moore -- Prodigal's 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 -- 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 -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Criminals -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
Baltimore (Md.) -- Biography.
Target Audience: 7-12.
ISBN:
9780804121910
UPC: 9780804121910
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
TEEN BCD BIOGRAPHY Moore [4 DISC] | Blythewood | Teen Book on CD | In |
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