Download Book 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
Once described by the Washington Post as ?the most interesting mayor you?ve never heard of,? Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has now emerged as one of the nation?s most visionary politicians. With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American Midwest, Shortest Way Home narrates the heroic transformation of a ?dying city? (Newsweek) into nothing less than a shining model of urban reinvention.Interweaving two narratives?that of a young man coming of age and a town regaining its economic vitality?Buttigieg recounts growing up in a Rust Belt city, amid decayed factory buildings and the steady soundtrack of rumbling freight trains passing through on their long journey to Chicagoland. Inspired by John F. Kennedy?s legacy, Buttigieg first left northern Indiana for red-bricked Harvard and then studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, before joining McKinsey, where he trained as a consultant?becoming, of all things, an expert in grocery pricing.
Product details: Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future
Author : Pete Buttigieg
Pages : 352 pages
Publisher : Liveright
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 1631494368
ISBN-13 : 9781631494369
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