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Get the Summary of Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Other Wes Moore" tells the story of two men with the same name living in the same city. One Wes Moore grows up to become a Rhodes Scholar, while the other is sentenced to life in prison. The book explores their early lives, family backgrounds, and the choices that led them down such different paths. Wes Moore, the author,...
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In the tradition of The Other Wes Moore and Just Mercy, a searing memoir and clarion call to save our at-risk youth by a young black man who himself was a lost cause-until he landed in a rehabilitation program that saved his life and gave him purpose.
Born into abject poverty in Haiti, young Jim St. Germain moved to Brooklyn's Crown Heights, into an overcrowded apartment with his family. He quickly adapted to street life and began stealing, dealing...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
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2024
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English
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Other Wes Moore, and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of "luxury beliefs"—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while...
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Other Wes Moore, and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of "luxury beliefs"—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while...