TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buttigieg,Pete
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TI  - Shortest Way Home:  One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
SN  - 9781631494369
AV  - F534.S7 
U1  - 977.2/89 
CY  - New York
KW  - 1
KW  - Buttigieg, Pete,
KW  - Indiana
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Biography
KW  - Gay men
KW  - Mayors
KW  - Urban renewal
KW  - Afghan War, 2001
KW  - South Bend (Ind.)
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Remembering -- Learning -- Campaigning -- Governing -- Meeting -- Becoming -- Building
N2  - "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
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