Reprint, Summer 1983
Joseph C. Goulden's Korea; The Untold Story of the War is described as the fruit of five years of research and writing and was praised at the time of its publication in 1982 as a "sound history of Korea" by Army Magazine. McGraw-Hill has now issued a paperback edition of this story of America's first no-win, limited, undeclared war, a war described by the late Gen. Omar Bradley as "the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong enemy" [$12.95]. Pantheon is out with a paperback edition of Ronald Brownstein and Nina Easton's Reagan's Ruling Class, which contains portraits of the president's top 100 officials and an introduction by consumer protection advocate Ralph Nader [$9.95]. In American Journey political commentator Richard Reeves retraced the famous trip of Alexis de Tocqueville which resulted in the classic, Democracy in America. Reeves sought to discover what had happened to the American dream in the 150 years after de Tocqueville, and his findings have now been published in paperback by Touchstone Books [$7.95]. The American Revolution and its aftermath are the subjects of three works reprinted by Northeastern University Press. The first is Merrill Jensen's The New Nation: A History of the United States during the Confederation, 1781—1789, a work which first appeared in 1950 [$24.95 cloth, $9.95 paper]. North-eastern has also reprinted Richard B. Morris's The Peacemakers: The Great Powers and American Independence, lauded by C. Vann Woodward as "a new and absorbing story of an old subject" [$24.95 cloth, $9.95 paper]. The third Northeastern publication is The American Revolution: Changing Perspectives, an anthology edited by William M. Fowler and Wallace Coyle [$24.95 cloth, and $9.95 paper]. Moving into the 19th century, Northeastern has reissued Carl N. Degler's The Other South: Southern Dissenters in the Nineteenth Century, which The New Yorker described as "a deft, discriminating, intellectually refined account of several generations of Southern minorities" [$24.95 cloth, $9.95 paper]. Princeton has come out with a paperback edition of William H. Goetzmann and Kay Sloan's Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899, an account of one of the last great oceanic exploring cruises [$8.95]. Who Owns America?: A New Declaration of Independence was a collection of essays edited by Herbert Agar and Alien Tate, which appeared in 1936. It is now available as a University Press of America paperback [$12.75].

