Trust: America's Best Chance
Written by Pete Buttigieg
Narrated by Pete Buttigieg
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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.
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg, born in Indiana in 1982, is nominated for Secretary of Transportation by the Biden Administration. He was the former mayor of South Bend and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. A Rhodes Scholar and Navy veteran, Buttigieg was educated at Harvard and Oxford. He and his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, live in South Bend, Indiana.
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Readers find this title to be a mix of opinions. Some appreciate the author's intelligent arguments and the opportunity to learn from his perspective. Others criticize the book as a poorly written defense of the American deep state. Despite the negative reviews, there are positive comments about the author's talent and wisdom. Overall, the book seems to provoke strong reactions, with some readers finding it excellent and others finding it lacking in trust and credibility.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Read this book if you don’t agree with him. Read this book if you do. We all stand to learn something from this humble, honest human being. Pay it forward.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I couldn’t put it down. What a special person with so much talent and wisdom
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a book for people who are willing and able to think. The only way that we have to make things better is to respect facts and reality, think and respectfully debate how we might make things better. Pete provides an excellent example of such an intelligent argument. Seek to make your argument as intelligently and you will be doing your part.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I read this with an open mind and am so happy that I did. I have a wonderful new respect for Mayor Buttigieg !
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Pete's underlying assumptions betray his hypocrisy of his own premise. He appears to have a fair understanding of the purposes and intentions originally invested in the Constitution and the founding of this nation. Throughout this book, however, he repeated uses assumptions that prove his lack of trust in others in order to interpret events and ascribe motive to those involved without actual knowledge.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Platitudes from Pete the CIA DNC sneak. Empty vessel on the grift we might just get him 2024
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5A poorly written PR rag defending the American deep state that Pete has spent his whole adult life trying to crawl his way into. This guy is gonna be around for awhile and it's just awful.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Pete Buttigieg is a right wing CIA rat and a puppet of capitalist oligarchs. His father was a Marxist with good politics. Should have grounded the little sh*t head more
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5My 11 yo nephew has a better grasp of the American Constitution and history. He literally makes things up to fit his assumptions and narrative. To be honest I only got about a third of the way through it, but I doubt it got much better.