Seymour Martin Lipset,
in Public Opinion (Apr.-May 1985), Amer-
eople? ican Enterprise Institute, 1150 17th St.
N.W.,Washington, D.C. 20036-9964.
In 1983, Seymour Martin Lipset and William Schneider, Fellows, re- spectively, at the Hoover and American Enterprise institutes, pub- lished The Confidence Gap, a book documenting Americans' loss of faith in their leaders. Even President Jimmy Carter had warned in 1979 of "a growing disrespect for government . . . churches . . .schools, the...