Even though Edmund Wilson considered much of the literature produced by the Civil War as so much Patriotic Gore, the most terrible and tragic conflict in the nation's history still exerts its power on the American mind. Witness, for example, the republication of two classic accounts of the clash between the Blue and the Gray. The first is by a novelist, the second by a journalist and historian. The novelist Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume work that took two decades to complete, has been ranked with the histories produced by Thucydides and Gibbon respectively. Writing in the Southern Review, scholar James M. Cox had this to say about Foote's three volumes: "To read this great narrative is to love the nation—to love it through the living knowledge of its mortal division." Vintage Books has published the new edition of The Civil War, the three volumes respectively being Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox [$15.95 each volume]. The journalist and historian was Richmond News Leader editor Douglas Southall Freeman, author of R. E. Lee, a four-volume biography published in the 1930's that still stands as the definitive account of the commander of the army of Northern Virginia's life. The prolific Freeman later produced a three-volume multiple biography entitled Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command. A new paper edition of Lee's Lieutenants, which first appeared between 1942 and 1944, was recently issued by the original publisher Scribner's. In the first volume, Manassas to Malvern Hill, Dr. Freeman describes the rise and fall of General Beauregard and the emergence of Stonewall Jackson. The second volume, Cedar Mountain to Chancellorsville, is an account of the glory days of Lee's army, which ended with the death of Jackson at Chancellorsville in 1863. The third volume, Gettysburg to Appomattox, recounts the decline of Southern military might and finally Lee's formal surrender to Grant in 1865 [$16.95 each volume]. The last days of the war are also covered in William A. Frassanito's Grant and Lee: The Virginia Campaigns, 1864—1865. Frassanito has reproduced photographs taken at the time, together with photos of battle areas as they look today, with an accompanying text. For example, he reproduced three photographs taken behind the Union front lines at Cold Harbor and then shows the same area as it looks today. The publisher of this new edition is also Scribner's [$13.95]. "It will resurrect your faith in all of us to read this book" said Newsweek of Studs Terkel's Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. Pantheon Books has come out with a paper edition of Terkel's account, with a new introduction by the author [$6.95]. Also available in paper from Pantheon is Gabriel Kolko's Anatomy of A War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience, which the Christian Science Monitor deemed "one of the best written general histories of this conflict yet published" [$12.95]. A third Pantheon reprint, also in paper, is Paul Boyer's By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age [$11.95]. In 1958 Harper & Row published Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, the Baptist minister's account of an incident that began as a bus strike, ended as a Supreme Court decision, and began making his name a household word in America. The account is now available as a Perennial Library book [$8.95]. Touchstone Books has reprinted Gloria Emerson's Some American Men: On Their Lives in which award-winning journalist Emerson describes the frustrations, joys, dreams, loves, lies, and secrets of a crosssection of male America [$8.95]. Also available as a Touchstone Book is Marvin Harris's Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life, a book about (according to the Introduction) "cults, crime, and shoddy goods, and the shrinking dollar" originally published as America Now [$7.95]. Vintage Books has a new edition of James MacGregor Burns' The American Experiment: The Workshop of Democracy from the Emancipation Proclamation to the Era of the New Deal. This is the second volume in Burns' projected three-volume history of America [$12.95]. Another Vintage offering is Robert J. Norrell's Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee, winner of the 1986 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award [$9.95]. Nebraska's Bison Books series has a new edition of George R. Stewart's Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party, the true story of the Donner party, a wagon train that got trapped in the California Sierras in the late 1840's, resulting in both cannibalism and heroism [$7.95], Two other recent Bison Books are respectively Francis Paul Prucha's The Sword of the Republic: The United States Army on the Frontier, 1783—1846 [$12.95] and The Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custeriana, written and compiled by W.A. Graham, with a comprehensive bibliography by Fred Dustin [$14.95],