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发表于2024-11-10
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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.
Wes Moore is a Rhodes Scholar and a combat veteran of Afghanistan. As a White House Fellow, he worked as a special assistant to Secretary Condoleezza Rice at the State Department. He was a featured speaker at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, was named one of Ebony magazine’s Top 30 Leaders Under 30 (2007), and, most recently, was dubbed one of the top young business leaders in New York by Crain’s New York Business. He works in New York City.
[有聲書] 沒有想象中的有震撼… 兩個Wes Moore,都是黑人男孩兒,一個去瞭軍校然後一路上升(約翰霍普金斯學位、羅德學者),一個毀在瞭巴爾的摩那危險的街上,因為搶劫槍殺瞭一名警官而入獄。結論?傢教的重要性~
評分反映齣瞭教育環境的重要性,周圍的人對自身産生的影響是強大的。這本小說很真實並且“接地氣”,但並不引人入勝,I'm not hooked to it. 我想是因為作者的文筆不是最好,所以寫齣的那些場麵雖然有畫麵感,卻不令人印象深刻。書中一些感想挺有道理,但依然不是最讓人有所震動。
評分是什麼使兩個背景, 種族, 居住地, 甚至姓名也相同的人走入兩條完全相反的人生道路? 作者, 從貧民窟走齣的Rhodes Scholar和另一個Wes Moore, 終身監禁的殺人犯. 雖然文采欠缺, 也有點成功學的影子, 但提齣的這幅big picture有一定價值.
評分是什麼使兩個背景, 種族, 居住地, 甚至姓名也相同的人走入兩條完全相反的人生道路? 作者, 從貧民窟走齣的Rhodes Scholar和另一個Wes Moore, 終身監禁的殺人犯. 雖然文采欠缺, 也有點成功學的影子, 但提齣的這幅big picture有一定價值.
評分是什麼使兩個背景, 種族, 居住地, 甚至姓名也相同的人走入兩條完全相反的人生道路? 作者, 從貧民窟走齣的Rhodes Scholar和另一個Wes Moore, 終身監禁的殺人犯. 雖然文采欠缺, 也有點成功學的影子, 但提齣的這幅big picture有一定價值.
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The Other Wes Moore pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024