Title: Discovering Wes Moore
Description: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.

Through the telling of events from his own life, Wes Moore explores the issues that separate success and failure.
Subjects: Criminals, Conduct of life, Youth, Social conditions, Soldiers, African American men, African Americans, Childhood and youth, Biography, African american men, African americans, biography, Youth, conduct of life, Criminals, biography, New york (n.y.), biography, Maryland, biography, African americans, social conditions
Places: United States, Baltimore (Md.), Maryland, Baltimore, Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
People: Wes Moore (1975-), Wes Moore (1978-)
Time periods: 20th century