Often called "a reporter's reporter," A.J. Liebling was one of the brightest stars in The New Yorker firmament, and his journalism, unlike most, does not grow stale with age. It retains a sense of immediacy and timeliness long after the events it describes have passed into history. The proof of this can be found in a new edition of the books Joe Liebling produced about Europe during and after World War II. Entitled Liebling Abroad, the new Wideview Books paperback contains "four complete classics in one volume": The Road Back to Paris, Mollie & Other War Pieces, Normandy Revisited, and Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris [$11.95]. Another New Yorker writer, Lillian Ross, has put together a collection of seven of her more famous essays, including a renowned and controversial piece about Ernest Hemingway, and they were recently published by Dodd, Mead under the title Reporting [$12.95 cloth, $8.95 paper]. Harper & Row has brought out a revised and updated hardcover edition of Robert Leckie's The Wars of America, "a comprehensive narrative from Champlain's first campaign against the Iroquois through the end of the Vietnam War" [$29.95]. James A. Nathan and James K. Oliver's United States Foreign Policy and World Order, an analytical yet chronological discussion of the U.S. world role since 1945, is now available in a second paperback edition from Little, Brown [$10.95]. The American West is the subject of three recent paperbacks from Bison Books, their respective authors and titles being Marshall Sprague's The Great Gates; The Story of the Rocky Mountain Passes [$8.50], Robert M. Utley's Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848—1865 [$9.95], and Rex Alan Smith's Moon of Popping Trees; The Tragedy at Wounded Knee and the End of the Indian Wars [$4.95]. Recent Illinois paperbacks include David M. Katzman's Seven Days a Week; Women and Domestic Service in Industralizing America [$8.95], David Montgomery's Beyond Equality: Labor and the Radical Republicans, 1862—1872 [$9.95], Américo Paredes' A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs of the Lower Border [$7.95], and Todd L. Savitt's Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia [$7.50]. A revised edition of Neal Peirce and Lawrence Longley's The People's President: The Electoral College in American History and the Direct Vote Alternative has been issued by Yale [$40.00 cloth, $9.95 paper]. Anthony Summers' Conspiracy, yet another examination and/ or revelation about the Kennedy assassination, is now out as a McGraw-Hill paperback [$7.95].