Two kids with the same name lived in the same decaying city. One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Here is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation.
In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore.
Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen?
That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered thatthe other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had grown up in similar neighborhoods and had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies.
Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.
1 有用 一匹脱肛野马 2012-11-19 05:24:51
"When did you feel like you'd become a man?""The expections that others place on us help us form our expections of ourselves."故事老套但作为传记可圈可点。
0 有用 多喜子 2018-11-17 21:42:57
[有声书] 没有想象中的有震撼… 两个Wes Moore,都是黑人男孩儿,一个去了军校然后一路上升(约翰霍普金斯学位、罗德学者),一个毁在了巴尔的摩那危险的街上,因为抢劫枪杀了一名警官而入狱。结论?家教的重要性~
0 有用 混子门大掌门 2024-02-23 03:43:39 美国
想读不了一点儿🙂
0 有用 ZZ 2018-07-05 09:06:32
一个读书俱乐部里看到别人推荐的传记。一直喜欢普通人的传记,哪些小细节就能让你的人生完全不一样。"What Make the Difference? People are so different and it is hard to know if it is environment or genetics or bad luck? From finding strong mentors to be... 一个读书俱乐部里看到别人推荐的传记。一直喜欢普通人的传记,哪些小细节就能让你的人生完全不一样。"What Make the Difference? People are so different and it is hard to know if it is environment or genetics or bad luck? From finding strong mentors to being trusted to have responsibilities to be serious about my behavior. There is no one thing to lead people to go from one direction to another." (展开)
0 有用 Amber 2018-06-08 14:49:11
值得焦虑的家长们静心读一读。
0 有用 混子门大掌门 2024-02-23 03:43:39 美国
想读不了一点儿🙂
0 有用 bedj2zth8n 2022-04-04 14:28:22
有一些地方感觉有一点点草率吧 整体表达的意思是有意义的
0 有用 鳀鱼炖草菇 2022-03-05 17:39:24
记忆犹新…不同的家庭背景、教育背景…不同的成长轨迹和人生
0 有用 筑梦 2021-09-02 00:57:05
语言和组织结构一般,但是很有启发性。作者因为发现一个跟自己同名同姓、年纪相仿的罪犯的新闻而萌生了想采访他的念头,然后发现两人还有更多相似的成长,以及后来生活如何让两人走上了不同的道路。
0 有用 炯炯是我的 2020-10-10 14:28:55
一个名字,两种命运。 one name, two fates. 有许多关于原生家庭的感悟。