To conclude his three-volume history The American Experiment—the earlier volumes being The Vineyard of Liberty and The Workshop of Democracy, respectively—James MacGregor Burns, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, examines America in the last half century from Roosevelt to Reagan in a book entitled The Crosswinds of Freedom. His field of inquiry includes the tumultuous years between the Great Depression and the 1980's, and his work has been acclaimed as "a magisterial history" by The New York Times. Vintage Books is offering a new edition of Burns' final volume in The American Experiment [$16.95]. Another recent Vintage Book is David H. Bennett's The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History, which The Journal of Southern History deemed "the best account we have of the Far Right in American History" [$16.95 paper]. Pittsburgh is offering a new edition of Michael Fitzgibbon Holt's Forging A Majority: The Formation of the Republican Party in Pittsburgh, 1848—1860, a work originally published by Yale in 1969 [$29.95 cloth]. Another Pittsburgh reprint is Max Hall's Benjamin Franklin & Polly Baker: The History of a Literary Deception in which Franklin created the eloquent and feisty Polly Baker on trial for fornication after the birth of her fifth child out of wedlock [$9.95 paper]. California has reprinted Eric H. Monkkonen's America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities if Towns 1780—1980 [$12.95 paper].

Kentucky has republished William H. Townsend's Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky, a work originally published in 1955 [$30.00 cloth, $7.00 paper]. Recent Bison Books from Nebraska are Gerald D. Nash's The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War [$12.50 paper], Colonel Homer W. Wheeler's Buffalo Days: The Personal Narrative of a Cattleman, Indian Fighter & Army Officer [$11. 95 paper], and Gregory J.W. Urwin's Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer [$9.95 paper].