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A review by thetbrstack
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore
3.0
A fascinating idea of a book that nevertheless disappointed me.
One Wes Moore is a Rhodes scholar, White House fellow, and a decorated military officer. The other is serving life without parole in a Maryland killing for participating in a robbery that lead to the death of a police officer.
When the first Wes Moore read about the second, he was intrigued by their similarities. Both grew up poor in Baltimore during the 1980s and 1990s. Both were fatherless. Both grew about around drugs and crime, and participated in both. The first Wes Moore wanted to -- and eventually did -- meet and converse with the second Wes Moore.
The book is about how their lives took different paths.
But I had expected a book about their meetings, their discussions, their findings about each others. Instead, the book is dual and contrasting biographies about the two men. It tells those stories well, but we get little about the men's interacting with each other, how they dealt with each other, and the details of their long conversations in the prison meeting room.
I know the first Wes Moore. I know the background of the second Wes Moore. But I don't know him. I want to.
One Wes Moore is a Rhodes scholar, White House fellow, and a decorated military officer. The other is serving life without parole in a Maryland killing for participating in a robbery that lead to the death of a police officer.
When the first Wes Moore read about the second, he was intrigued by their similarities. Both grew up poor in Baltimore during the 1980s and 1990s. Both were fatherless. Both grew about around drugs and crime, and participated in both. The first Wes Moore wanted to -- and eventually did -- meet and converse with the second Wes Moore.
The book is about how their lives took different paths.
But I had expected a book about their meetings, their discussions, their findings about each others. Instead, the book is dual and contrasting biographies about the two men. It tells those stories well, but we get little about the men's interacting with each other, how they dealt with each other, and the details of their long conversations in the prison meeting room.
I know the first Wes Moore. I know the background of the second Wes Moore. But I don't know him. I want to.