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.Įlected at twenty-nine as the nation’s youngest mayor, Pete Buttigieg immediately recognized that “great cities, and even great nations, are built through attention to the everyday.” As Shortest Way Home recalls, the challenges were daunting: whether confronting gun violence, renaming a street in honour of Martin Luther King Jr., or attracting tech companies to a city that had appealed more to junk bond scavengers than serious investors. 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 America’s most visionary politicians. ‘The best American political biography since Obama’s Dreams from My Father’ GuardianĪ mayor’s inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become nothing less than a blueprint for the future of American renewal.
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