Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future / Pete Buttigieg.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631494369
- ISBN: 1631494368
- Physical Description: 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | BIO BUT (Text) | 37810435746432 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Old Fort Branch Library | BIO BUT (Text) | 37810438144668 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Andrews Public Library | B BUTTIGIEG (Text) | 80605000764141 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | B But (Text) | 37807000009601 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Canton Library | B Buttigieg (Text) | 33115007670355 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Cumberland Headquarters | B BUTTIGIEG (Text) | 31781066205004 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| East Bend Public Library | B BUTTIGIEG (Text) | 30667100168269 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Eden Library | B Buttigieg (Text) | 31554010536554 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Enka-Candler Library | 977.289 BUT (Text) | 0020512125772 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Enka-Candler Library | B BUTTIGIEG (Text) | 0020512261015 | Adult Biography | Checked out | 08/25/2026 |
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