Shortest Way Home. One Mayor's Challenge And A Model For America's Future

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: John Murray
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2019
Edition: First Edition

Description: 354 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Once described by the Washington Post as “the most interesting mayor youve never heard of, Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nations 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 Americas so-called flyover country.

ISBN: 9781529398052