A review by mpetruce
Trust: America's Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.5

Interesting short little book by Mayor Pete on, well, trust, as a concept and his arguments that it is the foundation of a lot of the transactions of day-to-day life and is necessary for people to feel safe, and productive, and how when it's abused or non-existent, it's hard to live a prosperous life. I also enjoyed the diversions hear and there about the actual processes that erode or destroy trust (the whole social media disinformation campaigns about COVID, vaccines, etc., was pretty fascinating). If nothing else, it prompts deeper thinking about how someone can evaluate their own level of trust in other people, systems, processes, etc., as well as their own personal trustworthiness.