Bell Irvin Wiley's two-volume history of the common soldier in the Civil War has been hailed as a "landmark" by The American Historical Review and "an impressive achievement" by historian David Donald; and both volumes have recently been reprinted in paperback editions by LSU Press, their titles respectively being The Life of Johnny Reb and The Life of Billy Yank [$7.50 each]. LSU Press has also republished Alexander DeConde's account of the events that led to the Louisiana Purchase, This Affair of Louisiana [$6.95]. Harvard has published a fourth edition of John Fairbank's The United States and China, a book described by the London Times Literary Supplement as "a model summary of what China means and how the West must understand it" [$16.50 hardback, $5.95 paper]. Jack C. Piano and Milton Greenberg's The American Political Dictionary has come out in a fifth hardback edition from Holt, Rinehart & Winston [$15.95].