Between 1935 and 1943, thousands of writers were employed by the Federal Writers' Project to create a vibrant and vivid portrait of American life. The writers included John Cheever, Studs Terkel, Saul Bellow, and Ralph Ellison, and they put together a series of automobile travel books known as the American Guide Series, which have since become classics. Now, more than 50 years after the inception of the Federal Writers' Project, editor Archie Hobson has compiled a gathering of more than 500 memorable passages of folklore, local history, social commentary, and humor culled from the original state and city Guides. Entitled Remembering America: A Sampler of the WPA American Guide Series, this book is now available in paperback for the first time as a Collier Books publication [$11.95]. Vintage Books has published a new edition of Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go Of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture, the first cultural history of the Constitution by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian [$9.95], Atheneum has come out with a paper edition of Lois Gordon and Alan Gordon's American Chronicle, a year-by-year recreation of all aspects of American life between 1920 and 1980, including events in theater, art, dance, sports, and fashion, as well as more than 350 photographs [$16.95]. Even as Bob Woodward creates new controversy with his latest book Veil, a muckraking account of the CIA under William Casey, Touchstone Books is reorfering two of Woodward's earlier works, those in which he collaborated with fellow Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein to chronicle the downfall of the Nixon administration in the Watergate scandal. The first book is All the President's Men, a devastating political detective story of how two then-unknown reporters put together the pieces in the Watergate puzzle, even as Nixon was riding to a sweeping triumph in the 1972 Presidential election [$6.95]. The second Woodward/Bernstein reprint is The Final Days, a moment-by-moment, behind-the-scenes account of Nixon's last days in the White House before he became the first president to resign from office [$7.95]. The Nixon administration is also the subject of another recent Touchstone Book, namely William Shawcross's Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia, a work which won the 1980 George Polk Book Award and the 1979 Sidney Hillman Foundation Prize Award. The new edition has been revised, with new introduction by the author. The New Yorker deemed Shawcross's account of America's illegal bombing of Cambodia as "a first-rate account of the Nixon administration's underhanded doings in that Southeast Asian country [$12.95]. The MIT Press has published a paperback edition of Nicholas H. Steneck's The Microwave Debate, in which the author examines the still unresolved debate involving government, the public, and industry over the safety and use of microwaves and radio-frequency radiation [$9.95], Another recent MIT Press paperback is Military Enterprise and Technological Change: Perspectives on the American Experience, a collection of essays edited by Merritt Roe Smith, suggesting that the U.S. military enterprise has been a mixed economic and human blessing [$9.95]. A new Fireside Book is Richard Whittingham's What a Game They Played: An Inside Look at the Golden Era of Pro Football in which such football legends as Red Grange, Sid Luckman and Sammy Baugh talk about their early days in the National Football League [$7.95]. Harvard has published a new edition of Robert A. Ferguson's Law and Letters in American Culture, a study of the synthesis of law and literature from late colonial days to the Civil War, which won the Law and Society Association's J. Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History [$25.00 cloth, $10.95 paper]. Yale now has a paper edition of Helen A. Cooper's Winslow Homer Watercolors, the first major survey of Homer's watercolors, which are considered by many to rank among the greatest achievements in American art [$19.95], A new Bison Book is David Lavender's California: Land of New Beginnings, a history of that state from the earliest Spanish explorations in the late 1500's through the present, with an afterword by the author [$29.95 paper, $11.95 cloth].