The Work ― Creating Success in New and Meaningful Ways

"Wes Moore's remarkable bestseller 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? Next, he had to figure out the answer to the question: What is your work? More than finding a job, he had to find the work he was meant to do. For the next decade, Wes traced a path through some of the most fascinating and high-pressure workspaces in the world: an American student at Oxford after9/11; a combat officer in Afghanistan during the most intense years of fighting; a White House fellow during the tumult of the late Bush years; an Obama organizer during that historic campaign; a Wall Street banker at the cusp of the financial crisis; and finally, back home to Baltimore, working to revitalize that troubled city. This is the story of how one young man traced a path through the world to discover the meaning of his life -- and how after a series of misdirections and lesson-teaching mistakes, he found that meaning in service. Wes weaves the episodes and moments of decision in his own life with those of a dozen other changemakers from every walk of life who confronted the question "what is my work?" and found their own answers, to help readers see how we can each find our own path to purpose and to creating a better world"--

Wes Moore is a decorated army combat veteran, national bestselling author, and social entrepreneur. His first book, The Other Wes Moore, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He is the host of Beyond Belief on the Oprah Winfrey Network and executive producer and host of Coming Back with Wes Moore on PBS. He is also the founder and CEO of BridgeEdU, an innovative education platform that addresses the college completion and career placement crisis by reinventing the freshman year. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children.