Lewis Perry's Intellectual Life in America: A History traces American intellectuals for every period, examining who they were, how important they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to their countrymen. He also examines the openness of intellectual circles to women, blacks, southerners, and other groups. Chicago is offering a paper edition of Perry's book [$14.95]. Earl and Merle Black's Politics and Society in the South, originally published by Harvard in 1987, was the recipient of the Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association. Harvard has published a paper edition of the Blacks' work [$10.95; also available in cloth $25.00]. The South is also the subject of Richard E. Beringer, Herman Hattaway, Archer Jones, and William N. Still, Jr.'s The Elements of Confederate Defeat: Nationalism, War Aims, and Religion. This is an abridged edition of the four historians' Why the South Lost the Civil War in which they consider the dominant explanations of Southern defeat. Their conclusion was that states' rights disputes, the Union blockade, and inadequate Southern forces did not fully account for Appomattox. Rather, they concluded, the South lacked the will to win. The abridged account is roughly one-half the size of its parent study but retains all the essential arguments of the earlier edition. It has been reprinted by Georgia [$30.00 cloth, $15.00 paper]. Vintage Books has republished Daniel J. Boorstin's Hidden History: Exploring our Secret Past, a collection of 24 essays in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning author explores areas of the American experience overlooked by most historians and presents intimate portraits of such figures as Paul Revere, Abigail Adams, and Thomas Jefferson [$9.95], Ticknor & Fields is offering a paper edition of Tom Horton's Bay Country: Reflections on the Chesapeake, a winner of the 1988 John Burroughs Medal and a portrait of the places and people on what is perhaps America's most famous bay [$7.95]. Bison Books has reprinted Paul Russell Cutright's Lewis & Clark: Pioneering Naturalists, a comprehensive account of the scientific studies carried out by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during their overland expedition of the Pacific Northwest and back in 1804—6 [$14.95 paper].