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Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future
Title:
Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future
Author:
Buttigieg, Pete, 1982- author.
ISBN:
9781631494369
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York :

Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,

[2019]
Physical Description:
352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Abstract:
"A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal. 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."--Provided by publisher.
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Publication Date:
2019