To most living Americans, the Great Depression is little more than an historical expression, a reference to a time long ago and far away when Franklin D. Roosevelt saw "one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." To scout the heartland of the Depression, Roosevelt aide Harry Hopkins dispatched a former wire service reporter named Lorena Hickok, and her reports became a classic commentary on the era of breadlines, soup kitchens, and Americans living in makeshift shacks. Illinois recently issued a paperback edition of this commentary entitled One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports on the Great Depression, edited by Richard Lowitt and Maurine Beasley and considered "indispensable for any student of the Depression years" by Choice magazine [$9.95]. Indiana has published a revised and enlarged edition of Russell F. Weigley's History of the United States Army, with an extensive new chapter on the Army since the 1960's to the present, including an analysis of the impact of the Vietnam War [$10.95 paper]. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. is considered the dean of Southern literary criticism today; and his vast yet varied knowledge of Southern writers is reflected in A Gallery of Southerners, which Booklist cited as "a rare example of a literary critic who thinks the mind is a noble thing and offers it noble food" and which Louisiana has republished [$8.95 paper]. Chicago is offering a paper edition of Daniel Walker Howe's The Political Culture of the American Whigs, a study of 12 prominent American Whigs, ranging from John Quincy Adams to Horace Greeley [$11.50 paper]. Massachusetts has come out with a paper edition of David P. Szatmary's Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection, considered a standard work on one of the events which led to the adoption of the Constitution [$8.95]. Another aspect of American history is examined in Ferol Egan's The El Dorado Trail: The Story of the Gold Rush Routes across Mexico now available in a paper edition from Nebraska [$7.95]. The objective of those taking the El Dorado Trail—California—is the subject of another reprint, namely, The WPA Guide to California, prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930's, with a new introduction by Gwendolyn Wright, a recent Pantheon paperback [$11.95]. Johns Hopkins has issued a new edition of Barbara Sinclair's Majority Leadership in the U.S. House, an examination of the operational reforms made in the House of Representatives during the 1970's [$25.00 cloth, $12.95 paper]. The Pilgrim Press has published a paper edition of The Big Business Reader, revised, enlarged, and edited by Mark Green and containing more than 50 articles on how corporate power directly affects our lives, with an introduction by consumer protection champion Ralph Nader [$12.95]. A paper edition of Peter N. Carroll's It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: The Tragedy and Promise of America in the 1970's is being offered by Holt, Rinehart & Winston [$9.95].