Trust : America's best chance / Pete Buttigieg.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781631498770
- ISBN: 1631498770
- Physical Description: 223 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020.
- Copyright: © 2020
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- The necessity of trust -- The loss of trust -- Trust for a deciding decade -- Rebuilding trust. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Trust > Political aspects > United States. Political participation > United States. Democracy > United States. |
Available copies
- 20 of 20 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Crawford County.
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Crawford County Library-Bourbon | 320.51 BUT (Text) | 33431000556314 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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Kirkus Review
Trust : America's Best Chance
Kirkus Reviews
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The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and Democratic presidential candidate explores how trust in our country's governmental foundations has drastically eroded over recent decades. With the monumental 2020 election looming, Buttigieg examines the fundamental issues compromising the integrity of our country's institutions and why we urgently need to take measures to rebuild confidence. The author begins with an informative overview on the "necessity of trust" and then moves on to a cogent account of how the U.S. got to this point. From a historical and philosophical perspective, he reflects on the Constitution and the framers' expansive intent for future generations. "They built into the system a way for it to become bigger than their own biases," he writes, "trusting their successors with the power to improve upon what they had created." Shedding some personal light, Buttigieg recounts a few memorable lessons he has learned during both his military and political career. For example, he shows how establishing trust was imperative to the success of his life-threatening duties as a military driver in Afghanistan. The author also gives plenty of attention to the gross injustices that have occurred under the Trump administration, many of which serve as cases in point for why our trust in government has eroded so much. "Presidents after the Trump era will need to return to the basics when it comes to trust and credibility," writes the author. "By 2020, each of the most important means available to the White House for building trust--transparency, responsibility, vulnerability, truth-telling, predictability, reciprocity--had been not just abandoned but torched." Ultimately, argues Buttigieg, we must seek to rebuild our reserves of trust and transparency; take actionable steps to secure a fairer tax code; and direct a more judicious eye toward our legal system regarding corruption and police misconduct. An eloquent call to action for socially conscious citizens to get involved in restoring essential networks of trust. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.