Trust: America's Best Chance

Buttigieg, Pete

ISBN 10: 1631498770 / ISBN 13: 9781631498770

Published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 2020

Octavo, 223pp, [1]. Black cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. First edition, first printing, with full number line on copyright page. In publisher's dust jacket, retail price on front flap, a bright, fine example. Signed by Pete Buttigieg on tipped-in signature page. Seller Inventory # 17036

Synopsis:

In Trust, Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how trust will be essential in order to face the unique challenges of the decades ahead.Trust is essential to the foundation of Americas democracy, asserts Pete Buttigieg, the former presidential candidate and South Bend mayor. Yet, in a century warped by terrorism, financial collapse, Trumpist populism, systemic racism, and now a global pandemic, trust has been squandered, sacrificed, abused, stolen, or never properly built in the first place. And now, more so than ever before, Americans must work side by side to reckon with the monumental challenges posed by our present moment.Interweaving history, political philosophy, and affecting passages of memoir, Buttigieg explores the strong relationship between measures of prosperity and levels of social trust. He provides an impassioned account of a threefold crisis of trust: in our institutions, in each other, and in the American project itself. Today, these perilous patterns of distrust have wreaked havoc on nearly every sector of society, as Americans increasingly resent the very government that needs to be part of the solution. With the internet and partisan television networks acting as accelerants, Americans jettison any sense of shared reality, lose confidence in experts and scientists, and cope with the grim national tragedy of a pandemic that has only further exemplified the lethality of distrust.Buttigieg contends that our success, or failure, at confronting the greatest challenges of the decaderacial and economic justice, pandemic resilience, and climate actionwill rest on whether we can effectively cultivate, deepen, and, where necessary, * the networks of trust that are now endangered, or for so many, have never even existed.An urgent call to foster an American way of trust at this painfully polarized juncture in the nations history, Trust is a direct reckoning with the prevailing corruption of social responsibility

Bibliographic Details

Title: Trust: America's Best Chance
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York
Publication Date: 2020
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: First edition of Trust: America's Best Chance, signed by Pete Buttigieg.
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.