'The best American political biography since Obama's Dreams from My
Father' Guardian NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend,
Indiana, has now emerged as one of America's most visionary
politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent
American Midwest, Shortest Way Home narrates the heroic
transformation of a "dying city" (Newsweek) into nothing less than
a shining model of urban reinvention. Elected at twenty-nine as the
nation's youngest mayor, Pete Buttigieg immediately recognized that
"great cities, and even great nations, are built through attention
to the everyday." As Shortest Way Home recalls, the challenges were
daunting?whether confronting gun violence, renaming a street in
honor of Martin Luther King Jr., or attracting tech companies to a
city that had appealed more to junk bond scavengers than serious
investors. None of this is underscored more than Buttigieg's
audacious campaign to reclaim 1,000 houses, many of them abandoned,
in 1,000 days and then, even as a sitting mayor, deploying to serve
in Afghanistan as a Navy officer. Yet the most personal challenge
still awaited Buttigieg, who came out in a South Bend Tribune
editorial, just before being reelected with 78 percent of the vote,
and then finding Chasten Glezman, a middle-school teacher, who
would become his partner for life. While Washington reels with
scandal, Shortest Way Home, with its graceful, often humorous,
language, challenges our perception of the typical American
politician. In chronicling two once-unthinkable stories?that of an
Afghanistan veteran who came out and found love and acceptance, all
while in office, and that of a revitalized Rust Belt city no longer
regarded as "flyover country" Buttigieg provides a new vision for
America's shortest way home.
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