In Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South, Bertram Wyatt-Brown asserts that honor was the animating force in the antebellum South and presents a wide-ranging examination of pre-Civil War Southern culture. "This book," declared Harper's magazine, "represents an enormous academic accomplishment" [Oxford $9.95 paper]. Oxford has also issued a paperback fourth edition of a two-volume selection of readings in American history entitled American Vistas and edited by Leonard Dinnerstein and Kenneth T. Jackson. Volume 1 covers the period 1607 to 1877, and volume 2 goes from 1877 to the present [$7.95 and $8.95, respectively]. Two recent Vintage Books are Gore Vidal's The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976—1982 and Alan M. Dershowitz' The Best Defense, a study of criminal law [$5.95 and $4.95, respectively]. Touchstone Books is offering an edition of Peter Davis' Hometown: A Portrait of an American Community, the community being Hamilton, Ohio, which was also the locale for a six-part PBS series called Middletown [$6.95], Another Touchstone Book is J. S. Holiday's The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, an account of the 1849 gold rush that many consider a classic history of the greatest search for wealth in the American experience [$9.95]. Pantheon has issued a paperback edition of Walter and Miriam Schneir's Invitation to an Inquest, a study of the Rosenberg treason case updated with three totally new chapters, including the latest revelations from once-secret FBI files [$8.95]. William C. Widenor won the prestigious Frederick Jackson Turner Award in 1981 for his diplomatic and intellectual history, Henry Cabot Lodge and the Search for an American Foreign Policy, and a paper edition is now being offered by California [$8.95, also available in cloth at $24.50]. Columbia has reprinted Meyer Berger's The Eight Million: Journal of a New York Correspondent, a collection of the New York Times reporter's stories about the Big Apple of the 1930's, which was first published in 1942 [$25.00 cloth, $7.95 paper]. Illinois has brought out a paper edition of Mari Jo Buhle's Women and American Socialism, 1870—1920 [$9.95]. A paper edition of Kenneth W. Thompson's American Diplomacy and Emergent Patterns is a recent offering of the University Press of America [$11.50],