I read his book and he came off as an empty suit who has spent his entire life building his resume and doesn't understand issues of poverty with any depth at all.
In the book he compares his life (a middle-class kid, college-educated parents, attended elite private schools and was given one extra chance after another) to the life of a poor Baltimore kid (single mother, brother's a drug dealer, attended a shytty public school), and comes to the conclusion that he succeeded in life because of the "stories" he was introduced to in books and role models. Yeah, it was definitely that, not, you know, actually having a stable upbringing, financial security, and a 1-percenter education.
He's also a former soldier, former investment banker at Deutsche Bank and Citibank, and interned in the Bush White House under both Tom Ridge and Condoleezza Rice. He credits reading the autobiography of Colin Powell as being a defining moment in his life. During the Bush Administration he identified as a "social moderate and strong fiscal conservative". So yeah, he talks a good game but it's pretty tough to trust him.
Then again, I trusted Obama a LOT after reading his first book and we saw where that went. Wes Moore to me looks exactly like what Obama eventually became, so who knows.
Damn. I’m done with moderates