A best seller for over 25 years, Benjamin Quarks' The Negro in the Making of America opens with the arrival of slave ships from Africa in the early 17th century, then fully chronicles the role of blacks from the colonial period through the civil rights movement of the 20th century. A third edition, revised, updated, and expanded, of this three-century history of black Americans has recently been published in paper by Collier Books [$5.95]. Cornell has come out with a paper edition of Amy Bridges' A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics, which Reviews in American History praised for offering "a splendid reinterpretation of class and politics in the Jacksonian city" [$8. 95]. In the foreword to a new edition of Clinton Rossiter's 1787: The Grand Convention, fellow historian Richard B. Morris comments: "No one has so successfully captured the human elements of the gathering at Philadelphia as has Clinton Rossiter in these pages." Norton has published a paper edition of 1787, a work which first appeared in 1966 [$8.95]. When Phil Patton's Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway came out last year, The New York Times Book Review offered this advice, "Put Mr. Patton's lovely little book in the glove compartment of your Toyota and point it west." You can now put a paper edition of that little book published by Touchstone Books in your glove compartment [$7.95]. Another recent Touchstone Book is John Ranelagh's The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA, in a revised and updated edition. William Stevenson, author of A Man Called Intrepid, lauded The Agency for presenting "an outstanding, exciting picture of the secret world" [$12.95]. Kentucky has reprinted Robert H. Walker's Reform in America: The Continuing Frontier, a study of various reform movements in this country and the attempts to improve the welfare of blacks and women, as well as to enhance civil liberties and civil rights [$25.00 cloth]. As a part of its Bison Book series, Nebraska has republished Paul L. Hedren's First Scalp for Custer: The Skirmish at Warbonnet Creek, Nebraska, July 17, 1876, with an introduction by Don Russell [$5.95]. Two other recent Bison Books are Life in Custer's Cavalry: Diaries and Letters of Albert and Jennie Barnitz, 1867—1868, edited by Robert M. Utley [$7.95], and The Rocky Mountain Journals of William Marshall Anderson: The West in 1834, edited by Dale L. Morgan and Eleanor Towles Harris [$9.95]. Written in 1906 and long out of print, H.G. Wells' The Future in America, took a prophetic look at this nation as it began the 20th century. Now with the end of that century approaching, St. Martin's has come out with a new edition of Wells' report of a 1906 visit to the U.S. [$16.95 cloth].