Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s The Age of Jackson was written in 1944, the year of D-Day and Roosevelt's election to an unprecedented fourth term as president. Published in 1945, this wide-ranging description of the United States during the years our seventh president was in office won the Pulitzer Prize for history and was called "an original, brilliant and monumentally massive historical work" by the New York Times. Now Little Brown has reissued this classic study in a new edition [$22.50 cloth, $10.95 paper]. Until its death in 1966, the New York Herald Tribune was one of the giants of American journalism, and its colorful history was recounted by Richard Kluger (author of Simple Justice) in The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune, which journalist Anthony Lukas, writing in the Boston Globe, considered "probably the best book ever written about an American newspaper." Vintage Books is offering a new edition of this piece of social history [$16.95]. Perhaps the classic contemporary work of political reporting is the late Theodore H. White's The Making of the President 1960: A Narrative History of American Politics in Action. First published in late 1961, White's account of the campaign that made John F. Kennedy the nation's youngest elected president has been republished in a new edition by Atheneum, with an introduction by James Reston in which the New York Times pundit says of White's work "it is simply still the best account we have of the tactics and strategy, the mysteries, trickeries, and accidents of American presidential elections." [$14.95 paper]. If The Making of a President described the Kennedy triumph, William Manchester's The Death of a President: November 1963 recounted the crowning tragedy of the brief Kennedy years. Recently reissued by Harper & Row on the 25th anniversary of Kennedy's death, Manchester's work was praised by Richard Rovere in The New Yorker for making "an American contribution to the great literature on the death of kings." [$22.95 cloth, $10.95 paper]. As a Perennial Book, Harper & Row is also offering Barrington Boardman's Flapper, Bootleggers, "Typhoid Mary" & the Bomb: An Anecdotal History of the United States 1923—1945, originally published as From Hording to Hiroshima [$7.95]. Henry J. Abraham's Freedom and the Court: Civil Rights and Liberties in the United States first appeared in 1967 and is again available in a fifth edition from Oxford. The new edition has been completely updated to encompass the myriad changes in the Supreme Court and its jurisprudence over the last six years [$16.96 paper]. Verso Books is offering a paper edition of Alexander Cockburn's Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era, a series of polemic essays on various aspects of the Reagan years by a radical reporter whose columns have appeared in journals as varied as The Nation and The Wall Street Journal [$13.95]. Recent Touchstone Books include Max Hastings' The Korean War, which Time correspondent Hugh Sidey deemed "a top-drawer book by a splendid historian" [$10.95]; Jonathan Kwitny's The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA, which reveals how an obscure Australian bank came to occupy the central position in a vast network of corrupt operations [$7.95]; and Andrew Billingsley's Black Families in White America, the 20th-Anniversary Edition of a modern classic by a preeminent Afro-American sociologist [$8.95].