The late Richard Hofstadter's collection of essays on the role of the right wing in our national life, The Paranoid Style In American Politics and Other Essays, was acclaimed by his fellow historian C. Vann Woodward as "the most balanced and authoritative analysis we have of a formidable and apparently permanent force in American politics." As that force prepares to join the fray of the 1980 campaign, Chicago has made available a new paperback edition of Hofstadter's work in its Phoenix Book series [$5.95], If the right wing has become a permanent part of our politics, the quest for equality has long been a part of our history, and that quest is the subject of noted British historian J.R. Pole's The Pursuit of Equality in American History, which California recently reissued [$5.95 paper, $16.95 cloth]. Shortly after its initial publication, Pole's study was deemed as "a brilliant interpretation of transforming ideas" by the American Historical Review and as "a courageous assault on a central theme of American history" by The Economist. Illinois is offering a paperback edition of Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill's Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith [$3.95], an account of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, his brother Hyrum, and their alleged assassins which won the Mormon History Association Award. One of the few remaining American practitioners of the elegant yet rambling essay is Edward Hoagland, and a collection of 21 such essays, all taken from three earlier Hoagland volumes, has been selected by Geoffrey Wolff and published in paperback by Vintage as The Edward Hoagland Reader [$4.95]. Two recent reprints involving American medicine have been published, respectively, by Illinois and Yale. Illinois has brought out a paperback edition of John Duffy's The Healers: A History of American Medicine [$5.95]; Yale's offering is Mary Roth Walsh's "Doctors Wanted, No Women Need Apply": Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835—1975 [$5.95 paper, $16.00 cloth]. Southern history and society are the subjects of three books now out in new editions from LSU Press. They are, respectively: John Hope Franklin's A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North [$6.95 paper, $14.95 cloth], George Brown Tindall's The Ethnic Southerners [$5.95 paper, $11.95 cloth], and Daniel R. Hundley's 1860 discussion of Social Relations in Our Southern States, edited, with an introduction, by William L. Cooper, Jr. [$5.95 paper, $20.00 cloth]. Stephen Brill's in-depth examination of The Teamsters is a recent Pocket Book [$2.75], as are British journalist Henry Fairlie's The Parties: Republicans and Democrats in This Century [$2.25] and Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series [$2.50].