With the 1982 elections only a few months away, Holt, Rinehart & Winston has published a sixth cloth edition of Jack C. Piano and Milton Greenberg's The American Political Dictionary, in which the authors run the gamut of American politics from A to Z, from the local level to Capitol Hill, with more than 1200 entries describing and defining the U. S, system of government and politics [$19.50]. Oxford has come out with a fourth edition of Henry J. Abraham's Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States, a completely updated analysis of "all appropriate components involved in judicial interpretation of constitutional law," including a section on gender discrimination [$24.95 cloth, $8.95 paper]. Praised as "a major contribution to American social and intellectual history" by historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. , The Burned-Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800—1850 by Whitney R. Cross is now available in paperback from Cornell [$8.95]. Vintage Books is offering a paperback edition of Pauline Maier's The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams, a work praised by Newsday for offering "valuable insights into what divergent forces work to make a revolutionary" [$7.95]. Illinois has reprinted Virginia Yans-McLaughlin's Family and Community: Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880—1930 in paperback, a winner of the 1978 Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History awarded by the American Historical Association [$8.95], With a new introduction by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. , Louisiana has a new paperback edition of the famous Southern manifesto of 1930, I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, with essays from such literary luminaries of Dixie as John Crowe Ransom, Alien Tate, and Robert Penn Warren [$6.95]. Pantheon Books has issued a paperback edition of James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis's Mississippi: Conflict and Change, a controversial textbook which received the 1975 Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction [$8.95].