Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future / Pete Buttigieg.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631494369 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1631494368 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2019]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- 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. |
Summary, etc.: | "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. |
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Ansonia Public Library | 977.2 BUT (Text) | 34045143399942 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Beacon Falls Public Library | 977.2 BUT (Text) | 33120000391034 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | 977.289 BUTTIGIEG, P. (Text) | 32544072547556 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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