Each of the volumes in Daniel J. Boorstin's three-volume work, The Americans, received a prestigious prize at the time of its original publication. The Colonial Experience won the Bancroft Prize, The National Experience received the Francis Parkman Prize, and The Democratic Experience was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Now each volume is available as a Vintage Book, with their respective prices being $6.95, $8.95, and $7.95. Louisiana has come out with a paper edition of the late historian T. Harry Williams' The History of American Wars: From 1745 to 1918, a work The New Yorker deemed as "sage, well-balanced, and authoritative" [$9,95]. War is also the subject of an Indiana reprint by another Williams, the war being the Civil War, the author being the late Kenneth P. Williams, and the title being Lincoln Finds a General: A Military Study of the Civil War, Volume One [$27.50 cloth, $10.95 paper]. Publication of this volume, covering the period from Fort Sumter to the initial phase of Antietam, represents the first step in reissuing the entire five-volume set. A veteran of the Civil War is the chief protagonist in a recent Bison Book, Custer's Fall: The Indian Side of the Story, about the massacre of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his men at the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876 [$21.50 cloth, $7.95 paper]. Also available in Nebraska's Bison Book series is Virgil E. Baugh's Rendezvous at the Alamo: Highlights in the Lives of Bowie, Crockett, and Travis [$19.95 cloth, $7.95 paper]. Oxford has come out with a second edition of Henry J. Abraham's Justices & Presidents: A Political History of Appointments to the Supreme Court [$24.95 cloth, $9.95 paper]. Two recent Touchstone Books are, respectively, James MacGregor Burns' The Power to Lead: The Crisis of the American Presidency [$8.95] and Edith Efron's The Apocalyptics: How Environmental Politics Controls What We Know about Cancer [$10.95]. Carroll & Graf is offering a paper edition of Pierre Berton's The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush, a work first published in 1958 [$10.95]. A new offering in the Basic Books/Harper Colophon Books series is Harvey Klehr's The Heyday of American Communism: The Depression Decade [$12.95]. Algonquin Books has a paper edition of John K. Terres' From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog: The Walking Adventures of a Naturalist, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing. [$12.95], Kentucky has republished Kent Hollingsworth's The Kentucky Thoroughbred, an account of how the Sport of Kings developed in the Bluegrass State [$17.00 cloth].