A review by emilymyers
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore

2.0

I have so many problems with this book that I literally wrote a paper about it. The author compares two incomparable childhoods (with the assumption that they share extremely similar childhoods) and then chalks up his own success to the “risks” that he took and the drive he had. On the surface, they share a lot of similarities. But if you just read the book, you understand very quickly that they had virtually nothing in common. It is no wonder they had such opposite outcomes. The stories about these two individuals are genuinely interesting but the thesis of the book is what ruins it.