America's troubled, turbulent, and tragic relationship with Iran is the subject of James A. Bill's The Eagle and the Lion: The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations, a book which examines this country's relationship with Iran in the 1940's through the Iran-Contra Affair and its aftermath. Bill, a well-known authority on the Middle East, not only lived in Iran but was also a close observer of our policy toward that Middle Eastern nation. Yale is offering a paper edition of this work [$13.95]. Cornell has a revised and updated edition of William E. Leuchtenburg's In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan in which the American historian contends that a ghost has inhabited the Oval Office since 1945—the ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. [$34.95 cloth, $8.95 paper]. Cornell has also republished Andrew J. Rotter's The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia [$9.95 paper]. Johns Hopkins has published a paperback edition, with a new postscript, of John Higham's History of Professional Scholarship in America, an analysis of the conceptual frameworks that have shaped the writing of American history during the past century [$12.95]. Harvard has a new edition of Myra Jehlen's American Incarnation: The Individual, The Nation, and The Continent in which Jehlen examines some of the central problems of the American legal tradition and explores what constitutes America and the American in contrast to the Europe from which this continent's first settlers came [$22.50 cloth, $12.95 paper]. Collier Books has reprinted Michael Parfit's Chasing the Glory: Travels Across America which The New York Times Book Review described as "An elegy for what has been lost and a celebration of what remains unspoiled in America—both in the land and in the people. It is also a pleasure to read" [$8.95 paper]. Vintage Books has new editions of two works by American iconoclast Hunter S. Thompson. They are respectively Generation of Swine: Gonzo Papers Vol. 2: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's [$8.95] and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream [$7.95]. Vintage Books is also offering a paper edition of Nelson W. Aldridge Jr.'s Old Money: The Mythology of America's Upper Class a work The Atlantic said "may be the best nonfiction book about the American upper class by one of its members since Henry Adams' Education" [$8.95].