Bibliograph

Shortest way home, one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future, Pete Buttigieg

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Shortest way home, one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future, Pete Buttigieg

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Shortest way home

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Pete Buttigieg

Sub title

one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future

Summary

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

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