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Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future

Buttigieg, Pete, 1982-, author

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\"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 basektball 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.

• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
• Subject: Buttigieg, Pete, 1982- / Mayors Indiana South Bend Biography. / Urban renewal Indiana South Bend. / Afghan War, 2001- Veterans Biography. / Gay men Indiana Biography. / South Bend (Ind.) Politics and government. / South Bend (Ind.) Biography.
• ISBN: 9781631494369

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F534.S7 B87 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE