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The Resource Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future, Pete Buttigieg

Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future, Pete Buttigieg

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Summary
"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
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
352 pages
Note
Includes index
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
Isbn
9781631494369
Instance
Label
Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future
Title
Shortest way home
Title remainder
one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future
Statement of responsibility
Pete Buttigieg
Title variation
One mayor's challenge and a model for America's future
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1982-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Buttigieg, Pete
Dewey number
977.2/89
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
F534.S7
LC item number
B87 2019
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Buttigieg, Pete
  • Afghan War (2001-)
  • Mayors
  • South Bend (Ind.)
  • Urban renewal
  • Afghan War, 2001-2021
  • Gay men
  • South Bend (Ind.)
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State & Provincial
  • Gay men
  • Mayors
  • Politics and government
  • Urban renewal
  • Veterans
  • Indiana
  • Indiana
Label
Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future, Pete Buttigieg
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
on1037807140
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
352 pages
Isbn
9781631494369
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2018044991
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1037807140
Label
Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future, Pete Buttigieg
Publication
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
on1037807140
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
352 pages
Isbn
9781631494369
Isbn Type
(hardcover)
Lccn
2018044991
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1037807140

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