In The Making of the Atomic Bomb, author Richard Rhodes takes the reader on a journey through the development of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity in the summer of 1945. In reviewing the book for The New York Times Book Review, William J. Broad deemed it "the best overview of the century's pivotal event." This comprehensive history of the bomb so impressed award givers that it won both the 1987 National Book Award and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize. A new edition is available from Touchstone Books [$12.95]. Another new Touchstone Book is Allan Bloom's surprise best-seller The Closing of the American Mind, a book which ran for weeks in the #1 spot of The New York Times Book Review list, with over 500,000 hardback copies in print [$7.95]. "If, years from now," said writer Gloria Emerson in 1976, "Americans are willing to read any books about the (Vietnam) war being so quickly forgotten, let them be The Village of Ben Suc and The Military Half, by Jonathan Schell. They tell everything." Schell's accounts of that war have now been combined into a single book under the title The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War, with a new essay by the author, and reissued in paperback by Pantheon Books [$7.95]. Ever since 1802, when a revenge-seeking journalist named James T. Callender accused then president Thomas Jefferson of having a black mistress slave named Sally Hemings, the Hemings controversy has sullied the name of the sage of Monticello. New heat was injected into the debate about Jefferson's alleged mistress when Fawn Brodie's biography appeared in 1974. Later there was a novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud in which Hemings was the heroine. One of those who felt an historical sacrilege was being committed was Pulitzer Prize winner Virginius Dabney, and he came to the defense of Mr. Jefferson in a book entitled The Jefferson Scandals: A Rebuttal first published in hardcover by Dodd, Mead in 1981. Dodd, Mead has now published a paper edition of Dabney's rebuttal [$9.95]. Joan M. Jensen's Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750—1850 focused on women in the Philadelphia hinterland and showed how they became a part of that area's rise to agricultural prominence. A new paper edition of this work, deemed by one critic as "social history at its best," is now available from Yale [$12.95]. Another recent Yale paperback is John Mack Faragher's Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, the story of the birth and development of a rural American community, from its origins at the turn of the 19th century to the years that followed the Civil War. A third Yale paperback is Robert Anthony Orsi's The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880—1950 [$13.95]. Recent Bison Books from Nebraska include David L. Spotts' Campaigning with Custer 1868—69, the memoirs of a young volunteer enlisted man in Custer's campaign, together with General Philip Sheridan, against the Cheyennes and allied tribes [cloth $19.95, paper $6.95], and James P. Ronda's Lewis and Clark among the Indians, the first book-length study of the Lewis and Clark expedition's interaction with the Indian people whom it encountered [$8.95]. California has a paper edition of Chief of Staff': Twenty-Five Years of Managing the Presidency, edited by Samuel Kernell and Samuel L. Popkin, with a foreword by Richard E. Neustadt. This is the edited transcript of a symposium moderated by John Chancellor featuring eight former White House chiefs of staff who served Presidents Eisenhower through Carter [$9.95].