Audiobook
Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future
Edition
Unabridged.
Performers
Read by the author.
Publication Information
Minneapolis, MN : HighBridge Audio, [2019]
Physical Description
8 audio discs (approximately 10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Notes
Title from web page.
Compact discs.
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.