Trust: America's Best Chance

by Pete Buttigieg Narrated by Pete Buttigieg

Overview

Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust is central to our nation's current predicament-and how our future depends on finding ways to instill confidence in the American project, and in each other.

Trust is the essential foundation of America's democracy, asserts Pete Buttigieg, former presidential candidate and bestselling author of Shortest Way Home. In a century shaped by terrorism, financial collapse, Trumpist populism, global pandemic, and systemic racism, trust-in our government, corporations, experts, and, most tragically, in one another-has precipitously eroded and, for so many, never existed in the first place. Recognizing that we are now experiencing disastrous consequences, the former South Bend mayor offers a direct reckoning with the corruption of social responsibility, interweaving history, political philosophy, and affecting passages of memoir, offering a new outlook for how we can confront the next decade's challenges by building accountability. In this urgent work, Buttigieg confirms his status as a visionary political thinker.

Editorial Reviews

The Guardian - Charles Kaiser

"The book offers further proof, were it needed, that the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, also a former presidential candidate, has the most interesting political mind since Barack Obama."

From the Publisher

"Praise for Pete Buttigieg’s Shortest Way Home:

“The best American political autobiography since Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father.” —Charles Kaiser, Guardian

“Buttigieg’s stirring, honest, and often beautiful book is . . . an argument for what it means to answer a calling, and why it’s important to ask, again and again, ‘what each of us owes to the country.’” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker

“Combining candor and compassion with a brilliant understanding of how government can be more effective. . . [Pete Buttigieg’s] work is an important entry in the American political tradition for the twenty-first century.” —Walter Isaacson"

Product Details

BN ID:	2940177423050
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	10/06/2020
Edition description:	Unabridged

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