When Robert Griffith's The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate was first published in 1970, it was deemed "a highly valuable addition to our knowledge of power politics and the "anti-communist impulse" in the 1950's" by the American Historical Review. The book, which traces the rise and fall of one of America's most notorious political demagogues, later won the Organization of American Historians' Frederick Jackson Turner Award. Now a second edition, with a new introduction, of the Griffith study has been published by Massachusetts [$25.00 cloth, $10.95 paper]. A recent addition to Harper & Row's Perennial Library is Otto Friedrich's City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's, which the New York Times Book Review called "the Scheherazade of Hollywood—a spell-binding incantation of every adventure and misadventure within the film community ... highly enjoyable." Said Newsweek, "you couldn't ask for a livelier or more exotic cast" [$10.95]. If Hollywood contains many visionaries, it is by no means alone among American communities. Four such visionary communities—a fundamentalist church, a guru-inspired commune, a Sunbelt retirement city, and gay activist community—all embodying an American drive to shake the past and build anew, are examined by Frances Fitzgerald in Cities on a Hill, a new Touchstone Book [$8.95]. Paul A. Carter's Another Part of the Fifties was described by Library Journal as "a serious and substantive perspective on the fifties experience. This may be the best historical synthesis of the decade available." This account of the decade that began with Korea and ended on the threshold of Camelot has been republished by Columbia [$13.50 paper]. Two other new reprints in the Columbia Morningside Edition Series are respectively Paul Joseph's Cracks in the Empire: State Politics in the Vietnam War, an account of when, how, and why we got involved in the Vietnam War, with a new preface by the author [$12.50], and Robin Wood's Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, a collection of essays describing the shift in American cinema from the turbulent 70's of Vietnam and Watergate to the reactionary and recuperative films of the 80's [$12.50]. Nebraska's Bison Book Series has added two works by Paul I. Wellman, one being Death on the Prairie: The Thirty Years' Struggle for the Western Plains, beginning with the Minnesota Sioux Uprising in 1862, and the other being Death in the Desert: The Fifty Years' War for the Great Southwest, beginning in 1837 with the rise to tribal leadership of Mangas Coloradas [$8.95 each]. The Apaches are also the subject of another Bison Book, John G. Bourke's An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre, an account of General George Crook's pursuit of Gerónimo and other Apache Indians across southern Arizona and New Mexico into the Sierra Madre of Mexico in 1883 [$4.95]. Louisiana has published a paper edition of Joseph G. Baldwin's The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi, a series of 26 sketches and satires originally published in 1853, drawn from Baldwin's experiences as an attorney on the turbulent Mississippi and Alabama frontiers in the 1830's and 1840's [$12.95].