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Pete Buttigieg is the former two-term mayor of South Bend and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. A Rhodes scholar and U.S. Navy veteran, Buttigieg, whose first book, Shortest Way Home, became a New York Times bestseller, was educated at Harvard and Oxford. He currently serves as the U.S. mostrar más Secretary of Transportation, based in Washington, D.C. He lives with his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, and their children. mostrar menos

Incluye los nombres: Pete Buttigieg, Peter Buttigieg

Créditos de la imagen: Pete Buttigieg @ Merrimack, NH (20190216) By marcn - https://www.flickr.com/photos/37996583933@N01/33249197628/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77062913

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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1982-01-19
Género
male
Nacionalidad
USA
País (para mapa)
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
South Bend, Indiana, USA
Lugares de residencia
South Bend, Indiana, USA
Educación
Harvard University
Ocupaciones
politician
Mayor
Relaciones
Buttigieg, Chasten (husband)

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I mean, I probably could have read a whole book on the infrastructure and city management of South Bend, but I'm also a niche audience as far as that goes.
 
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Brio95 | 16 reseñas más. | May 31, 2023 |
Probably 3.5 stars. I was strangely drawn into to this story. Politics is not my thing, but I like Buttigieg's story of his upbringing and his practical approach to governing. Points off for not mentioning that Cincinnati is really the city with the smartest sewers - South Bend learned all about Smart Sewers from the really smart people at MSD in my fair city.
 
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CarolHicksCase | 16 reseñas más. | Mar 12, 2023 |
I only heard about this book a few weeks ago and I wasn’t sure if I was gonna read it, but when I found the audiobook narrated by Mayor Pete himself and realized it’s pretty short as well, I picked it up because I wasn’t really in the mood to read a new fantasy anyways.

This turned out to be a good one. As you can see from the title, it’s about trust, mistrust and misplaced trust and the consequences of it all. The information that the Mayor presents here isn’t something new or what we’ve unheard of, but seeing it all put together, with historical as well as contemporary contexts and his own personal anecdotes, it makes for a thought provoking read. In his well spoken words, he emphasizes the importance of having trust in facts, in science, in our fellow human beings - to have a successful and well functioning society. And how decades of being lied to, presented with endless amounts of sensational misinformation, politicization of important issues like climate change etc have all now come to head in an election year ravaged by the pandemic, where both the government’s incompetence and unscientific ideology driven inaction and a significant amount of the population’s mistrust in basic facts and misplaced trust in a lying authoritarian leader - have led to more than 200K deaths with no clear end in sight.

As I said above, this is nothing new. But in these very cynical times where it feels like every fight for equal rights and protections, just basic healthcare and some competence from the government is too much of an ask - it’s important to remember that we need trusted sources to move forward, and people who believe in the same inclusive and equitable future should trust each other, and fight together for the solutions. All in all, it’s a well written, engaging and incisive read and I would definitely recommend the audiobook.
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ksahitya1987 | 4 reseñas más. | Aug 20, 2021 |
If anyone has been following the democratic field for 2020, then you are aware of the recent buzz around Mayor Pete and it’s been interesting listening to his ideas. While I’m not someone who actually reads the candidates’ books when they are running for office, I wanted to read this one because I wanted to know his story. And the other thing that interested me was that this is part memoir and part his experience as the Mayor of a small city, not a manifesto of his policies for the campaign. I opted for the audiobook and his pleasant narration definitely makes for a nice listening experience.

Maybe I’m not the right person, but I feel lot of readers will find his story relatable. The only son of two middle class professor parents born in a city which is on a downward trajectory, growing up listening to its erstwhile glory days and watching the proof in the form of abandoned factories and decaying homes. This is probably the story of many towns and cities in America which lost manufacturing jobs due to globalization and have been struggling to find a way forward. And that’s what Pete tries to show through his story. Like many in his position, he left his hometown to pursue his studies at Harvard, then onwards to Oxford, worked in Chicago while traveling to different countries - but ultimately it was his love for public service that made him come back home and want to do something for the place that he loved so much.

The way he writes his story, especially about his campaigning and his subsequent job as mayor is a very refreshing take on how politics plays out ultimately at the local level where the impact is much more personal. His idea of bringing data driven, technologically advanced governance to his city, collaborating with the students of Notre Dame for some of these initiatives and bring more investments - all of which managed to bring down the unemployment levels from double the national average to the same as the country is definitely a commendable achievement. In between all this, he also talks about the daily challenges and sometimes, hilarious or equally sad issues that he has to face as the mayor, where most issues have to be handled on a very personal level. I loved the way he talks about the efficiency of solving issues vs being more timely, the differences between using data driven methods vs relying on the intuition of people who are experts in their fields, the importance of considering the moral exceptions when making decisions - all of his thought processes show us the picture of a very intellectual person who is not afraid to ask himself the tough questions. His very thoughtful pondering about having survived his Afghanistan deployment while others didn’t and wanting to live a better life because of this experience show a very mature and sensitive human being.

Among all this story about his growing up and his politics, is his decision about coming out. Being from a liberal family in a conservative state, it’s probably not surprising that it took being in his early 30s and being deployed to make him want to live a more truthful and fulfilling life, leading him to come out by writing an op ed in the local newspaper in the midst of his re-election campaign. The chapter where he describes his decision to date for the first time ever, navigating the online dating scene and meeting the love of his life Chasten is wonderful. Their first date story is absolutely adorable and his narration totally reflected the happiness he was feeling while talking about it. But all through the book, it shows that he doesn’t want his gay identity to be the only defining point about his politics and wants to be judged based on his policy positions, achievements and qualifications.

Being from conservative Indiana (also referred to as flyover country), he brings a perspective that local and state politics are equally important for the growth of the Democratic Party and that the establishment should do more, and not less to ensure that the voices of the liberal voters in red states must also be heard. Obviously, it’s not easy to agree with his position that we should engage and empathize with the people who voted for Trump despite the immensely racist politics, but it’s probably reflective of his experience of having to work across partisan lines and even along with VP Pence to ensure the development of his city of South Bend. I don’t know how this will play out in the primary against a more growing progressive voter base but let’s wait and watch.

If you have been impressed by Mayor Pete’s ideas and want to know more about where he comes from and his story, you should checkout this book. And I highly recommend the audiobook because his voice is perfect for his story and he brings a certain warmth and emotion to the narration. Just keep in mind that this book is more about his work till date and his ideas and values rather than a roadmap for his presidential aspirations. And I certainly am looking forward to his campaign and all of the other democratic primary contenders.
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