Trust - America's Best Chance

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."

About the author

Born in Indiana in 1982, Pete Buttigieg is the US secretary of transportation and former mayor of South Bend, Indiana. A Rhodes Scholar and Navy veteran, Buttigieg was educated at Harvard University and the University of Oxford. He and his husband live in South Bend.

Product details

• Authors: Pete Buttigieg
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781324091042
• ISBN: 978-1-324-09104-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 211 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 180 g
• Series: Liveright
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology