Wes Moore
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore and governor of Maryland continues his inspirational quest for a meaningful life and shares the powerful lessons—about self-discovery, service, and risk-taking—that led him to a new definition of success for our times.
“This book is about how to make our journeys not just about surviving and succeeding, but about coming truly alive.”—Arianna...
“This book is about how to make our journeys not just about surviving and succeeding, but about coming truly alive.”—Arianna...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, 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.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma he would never recover from. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like a final straw--it led to a week of protests and then five days described alternately...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Wes Moore's The Other Wes Moore ends when Wes completes his journey from a fatherless delinquent to college graduate and heads off to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. But what happens next? For the next decade, Wes traced a path through some of the most high-pressure workspaces in the world, including as an American student at Oxford after 9/11, a combat officer in Afghanistan, a White House fellow during the tumult of the late Bush years, an Obama...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Growing up in a tough Washington, D.C., neighborhood, Chris Wilson was so afraid for his life he wouldn't leave the house without a gun. One night, defending himself, he killed a man. At eighteen, he was sentenced to life in prison with no hope of parole. But what should have been the end of his story became the beginning. Deciding to make something of his life, Chris embarked on a journey of self-improvement--reading, working out, learning languages,...