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4.15 AVERAGE
4.15 AVERAGE
It's no secret that I adore Pete Buttigieg. I think this book made a lot of excellent points very eloquently. I also thought it wasn't exactly a book so much as a very long article, or perhaps a TED talk.
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I need to stop listening/reading political memoirs but I have a few left on my tbr so this isn't the last you'll be hearing of me this summer
Pete Buttigieg takes on the nature of trust in politics/elections and gives a timely look at trust in the age of COVID. I enjoyed the audiobook (~5 hours) of Mayor Pete reading this book. I don't think there was much new information, but I did appreciate his down to earth and insightful reflections on politics.
3.5 rounded up
3.5 rounded up
"Putting something this personal on the pages of a newspaper does not come easy. We Midwesterners are instinctively private to begin with, and I’m not used to viewing this as anyone else’s business. But it’s clear to me that at a moment like this, being more open about it could do some good. For a local student struggling with her sexuality, it might be helpful for an openly gay mayor to send the message that her community will always have a place for her. And for a conservative resident from a different generation, whose unease with social change is partly rooted in the impression that he doesn’t know anyone gay, perhaps a familiar face can be a reminder that we’re all in this together as a community."
Delighted my library bought Pete Buttigieg's latest book early! It's well-written, detailed in its research, ultimately optimistic. I'll read anything he writes!
Delighted my library bought Pete Buttigieg's latest book early! It's well-written, detailed in its research, ultimately optimistic. I'll read anything he writes!
A gracefully worded, perceptive, and inspired examination on the nature of trust, and its fundamental effects in all of our daily interactions, dispositions and patterns of thinking. A reflection of individual attitudes on trust in American societal landscape - political and otherwise -, and on international scale; most refreshingly expanding its self-study to comparisons on models US rarely dares or realizes to consider would be beneficial and viable inspirations to its struggle for welfare and equality, as well.
Pete's concise writing conveys an insightful, involved, active, and globally aware perspective. The personal, and captivatingly anecdotal viewpoint is not afraid to admit vulnerability, but shows courage and strength in the wont to constant growth and learning, and in the capability to take responsibility and extend trust to others.
Compelling, coherent, convincing, compassionate, and comprehensively comforting read on the indispensable importance of trust.
Pete's concise writing conveys an insightful, involved, active, and globally aware perspective. The personal, and captivatingly anecdotal viewpoint is not afraid to admit vulnerability, but shows courage and strength in the wont to constant growth and learning, and in the capability to take responsibility and extend trust to others.
Compelling, coherent, convincing, compassionate, and comprehensively comforting read on the indispensable importance of trust.
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A really excellent book from, I hope, a future president. He has hit the key points on what is currently wrong in American, but definitely western, democratic society. Trust is indeed the main factor that is tearing at the seems of liberal democracy.
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hopeful
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