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 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 ...