Considered a master of narrative history, Francis Parkman produced a chronicle of the French and Indian War a century ago that has become a classic account of that conflict. Now Atheneum has published a new edition of this work, which is entitled Montcalm and Wolfe, the respective names of the French and British generals who clashed on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec in 1759.The eminent contemporary historian, C.Vann Woodward, has written a foreword to the new edition of Parkman's masterpiece [$19.95 cloth]. The French and Indian War, known, too, as the Seven Years' War, is also the subject of Fred Anderson's A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven fears' War.Anderson's purpose, as he explains in his preface, is to focus on "the mundane aspects of soldiering... in order to gauge the effects of military life" on provincial American troops. North Carolina has published a new edition of Anderson's book, which won the Jamestown Prize in Early American History [$25.00 cloth]. Hailed by The New Yorker in 1938 as "the most original and admirable" volume in the WPA American Guide Series, New York Panorama is a collection of 26 essays touching on every aspect of the city's life from its subways to its slang. To New Yorker Alfred Kazin, Panorama is "a still unequaled history and guide to New York... in its last age of innocence." Pantheon has just brought out a new edition of this thirties classic, with an introduction by Kazin [$20.00 cloth]. The 1930's are the subject as well of Richard H.Pells' Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years, a critical assessment of how American intellectuals confronted that economic and social crisis known as the Great Depression [$10.95 paper]. The Union siege of Vicksburg proved to be the turning point in the military career of General Ulysses S. Grant, and that siege and Grant's role in it are the subjects of the late Earl S. Miers' The Web of Victory, which Civil War historian Bruce Catton deemed "a permanent and valuable addition to the lore" of our worst war. Louisiana is offering a new edition of this book [$8.95 paper]. The conquest of the West has long fascinated Americans, and it is described in Robert M. Utley's Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866—1891, a history of the final massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the Indians and open the region during the 25 years following the Civil War. Called "an excellent piece of scholarship and writing" by the Library Journal, the book has been reissued as a part of Nebraska's Bison Book series [$12.95 paper]. Touchstone has published a new edition of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's The Change Masters: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the American Corporation, which Publishers Weeklycalled "stimulating and invaluable reading" [$9.95 paper]. Simon & Schuster has come out with a new edition of Henry Pleasant's The Great American Popular Singers: Their Lives, Careers and Art, covering popular American vocalists from Al Jolson to Barbara Streisand [$19.95 cloth, $9.95 paper].