Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future / Pete Buttigieg.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, c2019.Edition: 1st edDescription: 352 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781631494369
- 1631494368
- One mayor's challenge and a model for America's future [Portion of title]
- 977.2/89044092 B 23
- F534.S7 B87 2019
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Stonewall Special collection | F 534 BUT 2019 | 1 | Special Collection | autographed by author | 234681 | ||
Book | Stonewall Non-Fiction | F 534 BUT 2019 | 2 | Available | 234682 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents -- Remembering -- The South Bend i grew up in -- Learning -- City on a hill -- Analytics -- Campaigning -- The volunteers -- "Meet Pete" -- A fresh start for South Bend -- Governing -- A monday morning -- The celebrant and the mourner -- A plan, and not quite enough time -- Talent, purpose, and the smartest -- Sewers in the world -- Subconscious operations -- Meeting -- Brushfire on the silicon prairie -- Hitting home -- Becoming -- Dirt sailor -- "The war's over" -- Becoming one person -- Becoming whole -- Building -- Slow- motion chase -- Not "again" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.
"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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