Trust

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.