Shortest way Home : : one Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future

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Call Number: 977.28 Bu, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Politics / Buttigieg, Pete
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Includes index.
The South Bend I grew up in -- City on a hill -- Analytics -- The volunteers -- "Meet Pete" -- A fresh start for South Bend -- 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 -- Brushfire on the silicon prairie -- Hitting home -- Dirt sailor -- "The war's over" -- Becoming one person -- Becoming whole -- Slow-motion chase -- Not "again".
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.

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