The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes MooreMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Tough Bronx and Baltimore neighborhoods with exposure to crime and the illicit drug economy serves as a launching point to success and a Rhodes scholarship and decades of imprisonment for his namesake. The author does a good job at highlighting the similar beginnings and dissimilar developments for the two subjects in this dual autobiography and biography. He doesn't come up with any answers on why the outcomes should be so different. Maybe chaos theory, branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, can help? Nah, that would maybe be too easy, reducing it to a probability problem. Author Moore goes at the addressable and thus has a lot to comment on about American society today. This pbk. edition is augmented with an afterword further groping to some sort of answers, as well as resources, a reader's guide, and a reprint of an interview with Farai Chideya.
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