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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Snow can be a beautiful thing, but it is also the mayor's mortal enemy. One day's bungled plowing is all that stands between a mayor and political disaster.
#2 The Blizzard of '78 was a major snowstorm that occurred in 1978. It was so severe that it brought the city to a standstill, and it was still being discussed decades later.
#3 By midafternoon on January 6,...
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"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...
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The underdog story of Will Haskell, who became a Democratic state Senator in 2018 at age twenty-two-taking on an incumbent who had been undefeated for Haskell's entire life and earning an endorsement from President Obama-and is determined to pave the way for his peers to transform government from the bottom up. President Obama left office with these parting words for Americans: “If you're disappointed by your elected officials, grab a clipboard,...