"A matchless and unequaled primer for the novice, an invaluable reference for the experienced scholar, and, indeed, the first book anyone possessing even a slight interest in American legal history should read." Thus did The American Journal of Legal History acclaim Laurence M. Friedman's A History of American Law when it was first published in 1973. Now a second, revised edition, with fresh references added, is available as a Touchstone Book [$18.95]. Touchstone has also reprinted General Bruce C. Palmer, Jr.'s The 25-Year War: America's Military Role in Vietnam, a work described by The Wall Street Journal as "a senior military commander's honest, unsentimental account of the Vietnam War" [$8.95]. Two other recent Touchstone Books are, respectively, Seymour Melman's The Permanent War Economy: American Capitalism in Decline [$9.95] and I.M. Destler, Leslie H. Gelb, and Anthony Lake's Our Own Worst Enemy: The Unmaking of American Foreign Policy[$8.95]. Capricorn Books has come out with a paper edition of Robert H. Walker's The Reform Spirit in America: A Documentation of the Pattern of Reform in the American Republic, a sourcebook ranging from Cotton Mather on social morality to the NAACP on civil rights [$5.95]. Vintage Books is offering Roland H. Spector's Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan, which The New York Times Book Review called "the best book by far on the Pacific War" [$9.95]. Fireside Books has a paper edition of The Working Woman Report: Succeeding in Business in the 80's, a guide compiled by the editors of Working Woman with Gay Bryant and deemed by Publishers Weekly to be "the most comprehensive and valuable book yet" for women seeking information on subjects ranging from salaries to child care options and tax credits for working mothers [$8.95]. North Point Press has republished in paper Edward Hoagland's Walking the Dead Diamond River, a collection of 19 essays about the New England wilderness, dogs, jury duty, mountain lions, power, fame, and life in the big city by a writer Washington Post Book World lauds as "the Thoreau of our time" [$10.00].