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Wes Moore is an Army combat veteran, national bestselling author, and social entrepreneur. He is committed to helping young people redirect their lives and supporting the parents, teachers, mentors and volunteers who care for, and work with, our nation's youth. Moore graduated Phi Theta Kappa from Valley Forge Military College in 1998 and Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. While a student at Johns Hopkins he founded STAND!, which works with Baltimore youth involved in the criminal justice system and still exists today. Moore completed a MLitt in International Relations from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 2004. Upon graduation, he served as a captain in the United States Army, completing a tour to Afghanistan as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. His first book, The Other Wes Moore, became an instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller as a story that conveys the importance of individual decisions as well as community support. He is also the host of "Beyond Belief" on the Oprah Winfrey Network and Executive Producer and host of "Coming Back with Wes Moore" on PBS. Moore is the Founder and CEO of BridgeEdU, an innovative college completion platform that addresses the college completion and career placement crisis by reinventing the freshman year in a way that engages students in real-world internships and service learning opportunities. He has been featured by USA Today, People Magazine, "Meet the Press," "The Colbert Report", "The View," MSNBC, and NPR, among many others.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue -- Timeline: Before the Five Days -- SATURDAY, APRIL 25 -- Tawanda -- John -- Partee -- Tawanda -- Partee -- John -- Partee -- John -- Partee -- Tawanda -- John -- SUNDAY, APRIL 26 -- Greg -- Nick -- Anthony -- Jenny -- Partee -- John -- Jenny -- Billy -- Anthony -- John -- Partee -- Billy -- Anthony -- Greg -- Billy -- Greg -- Nick -- MONDAY, APRIL 27 -- Greg -- Tawanda -- Billy -- Greg -- Tawanda -- Partee -- Jenny -- Greg -- Partee -- Jenny -- Greg -- Nick -- Partee -- Greg -- Jenny -- Nick -- Greg -- Jenny -- Partee -- Billy -- Nick -- Greg -- TUESDAY, APRIL 28 -- Anthony -- Jenny -- John -- Anthony -- Jenny -- Anthony -- John -- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 -- Partee -- Jenny -- Nick -- Tawanda -- Greg -- Jenny -- Partee -- John -- Tawanda -- Epilogue -- Author's Note 2020 -- Notes on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Authors -- About the Type -- By Wes Moore -- Copyright.

"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 as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge, and caught the nation's attention. Wes Moore is one of Baltimore's most famous sons--a Rhodes Scholar, bestselling author, decorated combat veteran, White House fellow, and current President of the Robin Hood Foundation. While attending Gray's funeral, he saw every strata of the city come together: grieving mothers; members of the city's wealthy elite; activists; and the long-suffering citizens of Baltimore--all looking to comfort each other, but also looking for answers. Knowing that when they left the church, these factions would spread out to their own corners, but that the answers they were all looking for could only be found in the city as a whole, Moore--along with Pulitzer-winning coauthor Erica Green--tells the story of the Baltimore uprising. Through both his own observations, and through the eyes of other Baltimoreans: Partee, a conflicted black captain of the Baltimore Police Department; Jenny, a young white public defender who's drawn into the violent center of the uprising herself; Tawanda, a young black woman who'd spent a lonely year protesting the killing of her own brother by police; and John DeAngelo, scion of the city's most powerful family and owner of the Baltimore Orioles, who has to make choices of conscience he'd never before confronted. Each shifting point of view contributes to an engrossing, cacophonous account of one of the most consequential moments in our recent history--but also an essential cri de coeur about the deeper causes of the violence and the small seeds of hope planted in its aftermath"--