Carry Wills' Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence has been praised as "the best and most thorough analysis of the Declaration ever written" and was a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. It has now been republished in paperback by Vintage [$4.95]. Another study of American thought, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945, by George H. Nash has just been reissued by Basic Books, with a new introduction by the author [$5.95]. New paperbacks from Chicago include a revised edition of William T. Hagan's American Indians, a volume in The Chicago History of American Civilization [$4.95], a second edition of Alan Trachtenberg's Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol [$6.95], and William Ker Muir, Jr.'s Police: Streetcomer Politicians[$5.95]. One of the more acclaimed books about the U. S. Supreme Court was written by Alpheus Thomas Mason, and LSU Press has recently brought out a third revised and enlarged edition of this work, entitled The Supreme Court from Taft to Burger [$17.50 cloth, $5.95 paper]. The prolific pen of Edmund Wilson is represented in two Farrar, Straus & Giroux paperbacks, one being The Twenties, edited and with an introduction by Leon Edel [$6.95] and the other being The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties [$7.95]. Farrar, Straus & Giroux has also brought out two reprints of works by New "Yorker writer John McPhee, the reprints being Pieces of the Frame [$4.95] and A Roomful of Hovings [$4.95], with the subjects of Mr. McPhee's interests ranging from sport to Scotland, art to Africa. Few American states today generate quite the interest— or quite the controversy—as California, and, for those who wish to acquire a better knowledge of the state, AHM Publishing Corporation has issued a second edition of Andrew F. Rolle and John S. Gaines's The Golden State: A History of California[$9.95 cloth, $5.95 paper]. Although the fighting has ceased, the literary tumult and shouting over the American tragedy in Vietnam continues, as manifested by the publication of three paperbacks. One is a Hill & Wang publication, Michael Charlton and Anthony Moricrieff's Many Reasons Why: The American Involvement in Vietnam [$5.95]. A second, also a Hill and Wang book, is Richard A. Gabriel and Paul L. Savage's Crisis in Command: Mismanagement in the Army [$4.95], a volume which purports to show what went wrong with the U. S. Officer Corps in Vietnam. Finally, and perhaps best known because of the recent television version of the story, is C. D. B. Bryan's Friendly Fire,the story of an American couple and their search to learn how their son died in Vietnam, which has been republished by Bantam Books [$2.75].