Shortest way home : one mayor's challenge and a model for America's future
by Buttigieg, Pete, 1982- (Author)
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, Indi... Full description
- I: Remembering
- The South Bend I grew up in
- II: Learning
- City on a hill
- Analytics
- III: Campaigning
- The volunteers
- "Meet Pete"
- A fresh start for South Bend
- IV: Governing
- Monday morning: a tour
- The celebrant and the mourner
- A plan, and not quite enough time
- Talent, purpose, and the smartest sewers in the world
- Subconscious operations
- V: Meeting
- Brushfire on the silicon prairie
- Hitting home
- VI: Becoming
- Dirt sailor
- "The war's over"
- Becoming one person
- Becoming whole
- VII: Building
- Slow-motion chase
- Not "again".