David C. King, ’85
The Generation of Trust: Public Confidence in the U.S. Military Since
Vietnam, by David C. King, ’85, and Zachary Karabell. Paperback, 111 pages, AEI
Press, January 2003.
David King is associate professor of public policy at Harvard University and
was recently appointed research director at Harvard’s Institute of Politics.
Based on extensive polling data, The Generation of Trust explores the “generation” of
trust in the military that has taken place since the end of the Vietnam War
and focuses on the performance and professionalism of the U.S. military, largely
since the end of the draft and the beginning of the all-volunteer force in
1974. It has been described as “an important and illuminating study of
how the military gained and sustained the public trust and also how other institutions — including
federal government as well as law, medicine, education, and religion — can
emulate the success of the military in improving its public image.”
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