Shortest Way Home - One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Liveright Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2019
Authors:	Pete Buttigieg
Dimensions:	244 x 163 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-63149-436-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > General Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
LSN:	1-63149-436-8
Barcode:	9781631494369

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