Trust: America's Best Chance - Pete Buttigieg

Trust: America's Best Chance

By Pete Buttigieg

  • Release Date: 2020-10-06
  • Genre: Political Science
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 52 Ratings

Description

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust has brought our nation to the brink of disaster—and how its restoration for all can reclaim America’s future.
In a century warped by terrorism, Trumpist populism, systemic racism, financial collapse, and a global pandemic, trust—in our institutions, in each other, and in the American project itself—has precipitously eroded. We are now experiencing the disastrous consequences of a “crisis in trust,” writes Pete Buttigieg, former presidential candidate and best-selling author of Shortest Way Home. In this arresting, impassioned account, Buttigieg contends that our success—or failure—in confronting the greatest challenges of the decade will rest on whether we can effectively cultivate, deepen, and, where necessary, repair the networks of trust that are now endangered, or for so many, never even existed. Interweaving history, political philosophy, and affecting passages of memoir, Trust is an urgent call to foster an “American way of trust.”

Reviews

  • A short, inspiring read

    4
    By Shwe Win
    Buttigieg proves to be a candid and able writer. Makes concise points about the lack of trust in our nation, his worldwide experiences with trust in institutions and in other individuals, and steps moving forward to heal the current divide.
  • Bad book

    1
    By tnt1000
    Bad book!!
  • Great interpersonal writing and an easy read.

    5
    By Bengringo
    Just like his last book, Buttigieg shows his personal life lessons through great writing and interesting prisms. May be the writing of one of our future presidents so take the time to read it.