Shortest Way Home - One Mayor`s Challenge And A Model For America`s Future

The meteoric rise of the mayor of a small Midwest city, who defied every pundit's odds with his electrifying run for the presidency, created one of the most surprising candidacies in recent American history. The fact that his New York Times best-selling memoir, Shortest Way Home, just didn't sound like your typical campaign book only added to "Mayor Pete's" transcendent appeal. Readers everywhere, old and young, came to appreciate the vivid personal stories and the often-gripping mayoral tales, which provided, in lyrical prose, the political and philosophical foundations of his historic campaign. Now featuring a new introduction and a "Coming Home" epilogue, in which Buttigieg movingly returns the reader to his roots in his hometown city of South Bend, Indiana, Shortest Way Home, already considered a classic of the political memoir form, offers a new meditation and provides us with a beacon of hope at a time of social despair and political crisis.