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 36-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.
Product details
| Listening Length | 9 hours and 57 minutes |
|---|---|
| Author | Pete Buttigieg |
| Narrator | Pete Buttigieg |
| Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
| Audible.com Release Date | February 12, 2019 |
| Publisher | HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books |
| Program Type | Audiobook |
| Version | Unabridged |
| Language | English |
| ASIN | B07NGN9NQJ |
| Best Sellers Rank | #3,643 in Audible Books & Originals |
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