Vintage Books has published a paperback edition of Leon F. Litwack's Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, winner of the 1979 Pulitzer Prize in history and a work C. Vann Woodward deemed unrivaled "as a comprehensive study of the coming of Freedom," while David Herbert Donald placed it on "that short shelf of indispensable works on Southern history" [$7.95]. The 1980 winner of the Organization of American Historians' Frederick Jackson Turner Award was John Mack Faragher's Women and Men on the Overland Trail, an account of what life was really like for pioneer families of the 1800's, which Yale has reprinted in paperback [$6.50]. Cornell is offering a paperback edition of Lance Banning's The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology, a new interpretation of Jeffersonian Republican thought in the 1790's [$5.95]. A more modern—and more corrupt—political persuasion is examined in Lyle W. Dorsett's The Pendergast Machine, an account of the Pendergast brothers, Jim and Tom, and the notorious way in which they dominated Kansas City politics from the 1890's to 1939, which Nebraska has brought out as a Bison Book [$3.95]. The prolific John McPhee is Giving Good Weight in a new Farrar, Straus & Giroux paperback [$5.95]. Louisiana has a revised edition of Edwin C. Bearss' Hardluck Ironclad: The Sinking and Salvage of the Cairo, a 512-ton Union ironclad that went down, with no loss of life, after striking a Confederate mine in the Yazoo River north of Vicksburg, Miss, on Dec. 12, 1862, thus becoming the first armored war vessel ever sunk by an electrically activated mine [$17.50 cloth, $5.95 paper].