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

"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...

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Main Author: Buttigieg, Pete, 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects and Genres:
Buttigieg, Pete, > 1982-
Afghan War (2001-)
Mayors > Indiana > South Bend > Biography.
Urban renewal > Indiana > South Bend.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Veterans > Biography.
Gay men > Indiana > Biography.
South Bend (Ind.) > Politics and government.
South Bend (Ind.) > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biography.
Nonfiction.
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Table of 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.

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