Pete Buttigieg Books

In his role as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg has emerged as a transformative political figure, tackling challenges in a city once labeled as "dying." His hands-on approach includes engaging with residents in community spaces, revitalizing abandoned properties, addressing gun violence, and fostering economic growth by attracting high-tech industries. Buttigieg's journey from a successful business career to public service showcases his commitment to urban reinvention and innovative leadership in the industrial Midwest.

"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 America's 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 decade-racial and economic justice, pandemic resilience, and climate action-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, have never even existed. An urgent call to foster an "American way of trust" at this painfully polarized juncture in the nation's history, Trust is a direct reckoning with the prevailing corruption of social responsibility. Yet refusing to give in to the despair that threatens our foundations, Trust seeks to inspire Americans to build a powerful movement that will define all of us in the years to come"-- Provided by publisher

A mayor's inspirational story of a Midwest city that has become a blueprint for American renewal. Once called "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-seven-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has emerged as one of America's most visionary politicians. With soaring prose celebrating a resurgent Midwest, the narrative details the transformation of a "dying city" into a model of urban reinvention. Elected at twenty-nine as the nation's youngest mayor, Buttigieg recognized that "great cities, and even great nations, are built through attention to the everyday." The challenges were daunting, from confronting gun violence and renaming a street in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. to attracting tech companies to a city previously appealing only to junk bond scavengers. His audacious campaign to reclaim 1,000 abandoned houses in 1,000 days exemplified his commitment. While serving as a Navy officer in Afghanistan, Buttigieg faced personal challenges, coming out in a South Bend Tribune editorial just before being reelected with 78 percent of the vote. He also found love with Chasten Glezman, a middle-school teacher. Amid Washington's scandals, this narrative, rich in humor and grace, challenges perceptions of the typical American politician, offering a new vision for a revitalized Rust Belt city.

Pete Buttigieg demonstrates how a breakdown of trust has been central to our nation's current predicament-and how our future depends on finding ways to restore confidence in the American project, and in each other.

»Die beste politische Autobiografie seit Barack Obama.« The Guardian Pete Buttigieg schaffte im Kleinen, was Amerika im Großen guttun würde. Er hat gezeigt, wie ein modernes Amerika gelingen kann. Unter seiner Führung hat das im Rostgürtel der USA gelegene South Bend zu alter wirtschaftlicher Stärke zurückgefunden. Seither gilt der 37-jährige „Mayor Pete“ als Hoffnungsträger der US-amerikanischen Demokratie. Er bewirbt sich um die US-Präsidentschaft und steht für eine neue Generation demokratischer Führung. Als Afghanistan-Veteran und Bürgermeister einer kleinen, aufstrebenden Stadt gilt er als Gegenentwurf zur politischen Klasse, die den Kontakt zur Basis verloren hat. In seinem Buch erzählt er vom Aufwachsen zwischen verfallenen Industriegebäuden, von der Bedeutung der Bildung und seinem Coming-out in einer konservativ geprägten Region. Buttigieg studierte in Harvard und Oxford und arbeitete als Berater bei McKinsey. Ihm stand eine glänzende Karriere in der Wirtschaft bevor, aber er kehrte in seine Heimatstadt zurück und wurde mit 29 Jahren zum jüngsten Bürgermeister der US-Geschichte gewählt. Die Anforderungen waren gewaltig. Er schuf zahlreiche neue Arbeitsplätze und wappnete South Bend für die Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Er gilt als Hoffnungsträger der amerikanischen Demokratie.