Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Once described by The Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of", Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move back to his hometown, previously tagged by Newsweek as a "dying city", because the industrial Midwest beckoned as a challenge to the McKinsey-trained Harvard graduate. Whether meeting with city residents on middle-school basketball courts, reclaiming abandoned houses, confronting gun violence, or attracting high-tech industry, Buttigieg has transformed South Bend into a shining model of urban reinvention.
While Washington reels with scandal, Shortest Way Home interweaves two once-unthinkable success stories: that of an Afghanistan veteran who came out and found love and acceptance, all while in office, and that of a Rust Belt city so thoroughly transformed that it shatters the way we view America's so-called flyover country.
PRODUCT DETAILS :
ISBN : 9781631494369 | |
BY (AUTHOR) Buttigieg, Pete | |
PUBLISHER : WW Norton & Co | PUBLICATION DATE : February 19, 2019 |
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States | IMPRINT : Liveright Publishing Corporation |
LANGUAGE : English | AGE : General |
PRODUCT FORM : Hardback |
WEIGHT : 607 g
PRODUCT CATEGORY :
Biography, Literature & Literary studies
Society & Social Sciences
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