Tonight's guest on The Daily Show is Wes Moore, and the panelists Common, Charles M. Blow, Joe Jones, and Mike Yard will be discussing black fatherhood on The Nightly Show.
Wes Moore is an author, businessman, U.S. Army veteran and host of Beyond Belief on OWN. Tonight he is on to promote his latest book
The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters
The Work is the story of how one young man traced a path through the world to find his life’s purpose. Wes Moore graduated from a difficult childhood in the Bronx and Baltimore to an adult life that would find him at some of the most critical moments in our recent history: as a combat officer in Afghanistan; a White House fellow in a time of wars abroad and disasters at home; and a Wall Street banker during the financial crisis. In this insightful book, Moore shares the lessons he learned from people he met along the way—from the brave Afghan translator who taught him to find his fight, to the resilient young students in Katrina-ravaged Mississippi who showed him the true meaning of grit, to his late grandfather, who taught him to find grace in service.
Moore also tells the stories of other twenty-first-century change-makers who’ve inspired him in his search, from Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND, to Esther Benjamin, a Sri Lankan immigrant who rose to help lead the Peace Corps. What their lives—and his own misadventures and moments of illumination—reveal is that our truest work happens when we serve others, at the intersection between our gifts and our broken world. That’s where we find the work that lasts.
An intimate narrative about finding meaning in a volatile age, The Work will inspire readers to see how we can each find our own path to purpose and help create a better world.
Reviews seem pretty positive for the book, but this genre of book is not something that really interests me.
Common is a hip hop recording artist and actor, best known for portraying Elam Ferguson in Hell On Wheels.
Charles M. Blow is a journalist, and the current visual op-ed columnist for The New York Times.
Joe Jones is an unknown guest at this point. Way too many people named Joe Jones to even make a guess!
Mike Yard is a comedian and regular contributor to The Nightly Show.
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