| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Note |
Includes 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 -- Monday morning: a tour -- 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. |
| Subject |
Buttigieg, Pete, 1982-
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Afghan War (2001-) (OCoLC)fst01695175
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Mayors -- Indiana -- South Bend -- Biography.
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South Bend (Ind.) -- Politics and government.
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Urban renewal -- Indiana -- South Bend.
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Veterans -- Biography.
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Gay men -- Indiana -- Biography.
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South Bend (Ind.) -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State & Provincial.
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Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
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Mayors. (OCoLC)fst01012869
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Urban renewal. (OCoLC)fst01162536
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Veterans. (OCoLC)fst01165710
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Indiana. (OCoLC)fst01204604
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Indiana -- South Bend.
(OCoLC)fst01208959
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Added Title |
One mayor's challenge and a model for America's future |
| ISBN |
9781631494369 (hardcover) |
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1631494368 (hardcover) |
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