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Reprint, Summer 1986

When Margaret Leech's Reveille in Washington was first published in 1941, the New York Times Book Review commented: "From the beckoning perfection of its first line, it is literary skill of a very high order.... A truly living, scholarly book that comes to us with enlightenment and wit, brilliance in scene and universality in insight." This account of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War later won the Pulitzer Prize for history. Carroll & Graf has reissued the work in a paper edition [$11.95]. Another aspect of the Civil War is examined by Milton F. Perry in Infernal Machines: The Story of Confederate Submarine and Mine Warfare, which Louisiana has reprinted in a paper edition [$8.95]. Oklahoma has come out with a second, revised edition of Thurman Wilkins' Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People, an account of the events that led to the infamous Trail of Tears [$24.95 cloth]. Massachusetts is offering a revised edition of Lewis M. Killian's White Southerners, a work originally published in 1970, now containing a new chapter in which Killian reviews the "Carter decade" and considers a new "Solid South" as predominantly Republican despite an increase in Southern black political power [$25.00 cloth, $8.95 paper]. Oxford has published a fifth edition of Henry J. Abraham's The Judicial Process, a work examining the theory, practice, and people behind the judicial process in the United States, England, and France [$14.95 paper]. Admiral Stansfield Turner served as director of Central Intelligence under President Carter and later recounted his experiences in Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition. Harper & Row has now issued a paper edition as a part of its Perennial Library series [$7.95]. Another Harper & Row paperback is Robert H. Ferrell's Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917—1921, a part of The New American Nation Series edited by Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris [$8.95]. Beacon Press has come out with a revised and updated edition of Edgar Bottome's The Balance of Terror: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Security, 1945—1985, an analysis of the myths and realities behind American involvement in the international arms race [$11.95 paper]. Recent Touchstone Books include Esra Vogel's Comeback: Building the Resurgence of American Business [$8.95] and G. William Domhoff's Who Rules America Now?: A View for the '80s [also $8.95]. An abridged edition of Gary B. Nash's The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution, which the Journal of American History considered "a major reinterpretation of urban life in 18th-century America," has been published by Harvard [$9.95 paper]. Cornell is offering a paper edition of Christopher Eaton Gunn's Workers' Self-Management in the United States, a study of worker-owned firms in America [$9.95],

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