Five and Ten Press

• INTRODUCTION
  BLACK SHEEP BOOKS
  

• PUBLICATIONS OF THE FIVE AND TEN PRESS 1995-2005
  

• O R D E R - F O R M

• ROBERT KEELEY'S BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
  

• D.C. GOVERNANCE: IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A MATTER OF RACE AND MONEY
  

• ANNALS OF INVESTING: STEVE FORBES VS. WARREN BUFFETT
  

• THE FILE : A PRINCETON MEMOIR
  

• ESSAYS FAST AND LOOSE: A CHRISTMAS MISCELLANY
  

• LETTERS MOSTLY UNPUBLISHED
  

• INNOCENTS OF THE LATTER DAY : MODERN AMERICANS ABROAD
  By James W. Spain
  

• ESSAY'S COLD AND HOT: A New Year's Potpourri
  

• MSS Revisited
  

• THREE SEA STORIES
  

• CREATURES OF THE EARTH AND THE MIND
  By Carl Coon
  
  
• MY COMMUTE
  By Alison Autobound Axel
  

• SIC TRANSIT
  By Carl Coon
  

• THE GREAT PHELSUMA CAPER (A DIPLOMATIC MEMOIR)
  

• THE PORT OF MISSING MEN (A NOVEL)
  

• POETRY MOSTLY OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
  

• PARTING THE CURTAIN
  By Anne Coe Heyniger
  

• ESSAYS NEAR AND FAR: AS A NEW CENTURY DAWNS
  

• RANDOM THOUGHTS, ANECDOTES, AND MEMORIES OF A BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE THAT IS NO MORE
  By Don Hahn
  

• FROM THE HEARTLAND
  By Carl Coon
  

• ONE OF THE VERY BEST MEN
  By Robert Sherwood Dillon
  

• A STORY GOES WITH IT
  By George Garrett
  

• LOW CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN HIGH PLACES: John Mitchell and Watergate.
  By Edmund Keeley
  

• THE WORLD ACCORDING TO WHITBECK
  By John V. Whitbeck
  

• AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN WORLD WAR I
  By Robert Sherwood Dillon
  
  
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  In November 1995 I founded the Five and Ten Press for the purpose of publishing articles, essays, novellas, stories, or other literary works that were suitable for printing in booklets or pamphlets--anything short of book-length--that were being either rejected or ignored by the media and mainstream publishers, and that could be printed inexpensively by photo-off-set processes using camera-ready text prepared on a computer. There were to be no restrictions as to genre: historical, personal, polemical, humorous, serious, fictional, or factual, and a category I particularly like - factual fiction. I was eager to find other writers who were interested in self-publishing their own work in the same manner, using my new press as the vehicle. Thus far five such like-minded enthusiasts have appeared on the scene. Prior to that I had to resort to publishing my own material.
  
  The name of the Press derived from my intention to price the products in the range of five to ten dollars per copy, just enough to cover expenses if I could sell around 300 copies of each work. These were to be limited editions of 400 to 600 copies, with a portion of them numbered and signed by the author. In 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 2000 and 2001, the Press published nine booklets of my own authorship, six by other authors, one by James W. Spain, and one by Carl Coon. Brief descriptions of the contents are given in the pages that follow.
  
  With its fourth publication the Five and Ten Press instituted
  a subscription service, by which subscribers pay $25 in advance to receive the next $25 worth of publications. The subscription has no time limit, but remains valid until $25 worth of booklets have been received. God willing, subscribers will receive three, four, or perhaps five publications. There are never any annoying "postage and handling" charges. These are absorbed by the Press, which mails all publications first class to ensure they reach the addressee.
  
  There are currently more than 200 subscribers. If you would like to join this elite group of aficionados, gamblers, and gluttons for punishment, many of whom are understandably indulgent friends and acquaintances of mine, please use the enclosed order form and mail it with your check for $25 to the Five and Ten Press Inc. at
  3814 Livingston Street, N.W. , Washington, D.C., 20015-2803. Please enter your mailing address at the top of the form.
  
  As a "signing bonus" for joining the ranks of subscribers, you will also receive as a free gift any one of the publications listed on the order form. These gifts will, among other things, help reduce the Press's inventory of unsold publications.
  
  The order form also offers you the option of buying any of the Press's publications that interest you, in addition to or instead of becoming a subscriber.
  
  These limited edition publications are known as Black Sheep Books, in keeping with the publisher's current profession of "consulting iconoclast."
  
  Robert V. Keeley
  Publisher and
  Circulation Manager
  
  1. "D.C. Governance: It's Always Been a Matter of Race and Money." 29 pages. Published in December 1995, second printing in February 1996. (Out of print. Available in photocopy for $5.)
  A brief history of home rule in the District of Columbia from its founding in 1800 through the end of self-governance in the 1870's, based on my grandfather's book written in 1916 entitled "Democracy or Despotism in the American Capital." Part II examines the situation of the nation's capital today, arguing that it is ungovernable for basic structural reasons embedded in the Constitution and in the acts of Congress controlling its governance, and because of its unique characteristics which most critics ignore. Eight possible solutions are then briefly analyzed, with a conclusion that territorial status is the only viable solution.
  
  
  Table of Contents
  PART I
  History
  PART II
  The Problem
  Solutions
  1.Statehood
  2.Remake the District of 1800
  3.Give the District back to Maryland
  4.Detach Ward 3 and give it to Maryland
  5.Create a Viable Metropolis
  6.A Commuter Tax
  7.Strip D.C. of State and County Responsibilities
  8.Territorial Status
  
  2. "Annals of Investing: Steve Forbes vs. Warren Buffett." 49 pages. Published in March 1996. $5.
  Part I, entitled "Steve Forbes for President? Not if You Want to Make Money in the Stock Market," begins with a highly negative critique of Forbes's flat tax proposal featured in his campaign for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination, and then recounts my black humor experience using the stock tips provided by the Forbes Special Situation Survey, an element of Forbes's publishing empire, to try to make money in the stock market, with devastatingly negative results.
  Part II, entitled "Warren Buffett for President: What we Need in the White House is a Real Eccentric," recounts the very positive results achieved by investing in Berkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle of Warren Buffett of Omaha, Nebraska, the greatest American investor of modern times and a recognized genius in the field.
  An Appendix recounts in grimly humorous detail the actual results, mostly terrible, of using the Forbes Survey's stock tips to invest in 36 common stocks they recommended.
  
  3. "The File: A Princeton Memoir." 96 pages. Published in May 1996. $10.
  A frankly nostalgic, anecdotal account of my undergraduate years (1947-1951) at Princeton University. The anecdotes range over collegiate pranks, reform efforts, campus politics, undergraduate journalistic efforts, non-curricular escapades, disciplinary conflicts with the Dean of the College, professorial mentors, imitations of F. Scott Fitzgerald, somewhat jejune literary endeavors, academic failures and near triumphs, and love affairs discreetly described. Most of this story is true, all of it is as remembered, and some is documented.
  
  Table of Contents
  The End of the Dink
  Painting Pennsylvania
  The John Hite Case
  Admitting Blacks to Princeton
  Ed McInerney '52
  The Republican Club
  The 100 Per Cent Bicker Campaign
  Philo's Gossip Column
  The Black Lock Society
  The Indonesia Caper
  The Oriental Bazaar
  Philo's Last Column
  "Spook" McClintock's Joke
  A Farewell to Princeton, Almost
  Correspondence with Damascus
  Notoriety Worldwide
  More Damascus Correspondence
  Changing a Lifestyle
  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Edwards Hall
  Jose Donoso
  A Novel as Senior Thesis
  Campus Club Politics
  MSS Literary Magazine
  Martha's Vineyard
  Keeping MSS Alive
  Recalling Cecil Rhodes
  Skipping Bert Friend's Exam
  Prefacing the Novel Saturday
  Stanley Seeger
  The Manners Prize
  Epilogue
  A Footnote
  
  4. "Essays Fast and Loose: A Christmas Miscellany." 76 pages. Published in November 1996. $7.
  Quirky essays about the O.J. Simpson trial, corporate executive greed, my sciatica and how Medicare prevents medical provider rip-offs, earning free cruises by dancing with unattached ladies, boredom induced by the Olympic Games, Colin Powell's deficiencies as a potential presidential candidate, and a wonderful Greek island.
  
  Table of Contents
  1.The Strange Case of the Bloody Gloves and the Deficient Time Line.
  2.Changing Corporate Culture.
  3.Dancing with the Gentleman Hosts.
  4.They Can't Blame This situation on Hillary (A Medical
  Misadventure).
  5.Why I Didn't Watch the Olympics.
  6.Discovering a Touristic Treasure: Aphrodite's Birthplace.
  7.General Powell for President?
  8."Never Play Scrabble During An Electrical Storm" (A One-Act Play).
  9.Forbes Revisited.
  
  5."Letters Mostly Unpublished." 72 pages.
  Published in March 1997. $5.
  Twenty-two letters-to-the-editor and other unresponsive recipients about economics, presidential politics, parking tickets, recycling, Macedonia, the stock market, the State Department, Cambodia, ethnic cleansing, same sex unions, Michael Eisner, Jack Valenti, Hiroshima, the internet, the IRS, Newt Gingrich, and a lot of other targets.
  
  Table of Contents
  1.First Impressions of Cambodia.
  2.Corporate Welfare for Stock Market Bulls.
  3.That Was My "Day in Court"?
  4.What Do Kay Graham and Dog Owners Have in Common?
  5.It's Time to Reform the "Depletion" Tax.
  6.Whose Macedonia?
  7.Let the Electoral College Decide.
  8.Foreign Service Fantasy Land.
  9.Diversity in Hiring at the State Department.
  10.How About Michael Eisner as CEO of an African Country?
  11.Just Sitting Around Making Money.
  12.Look Out for the Consumption Tax.
  13.Economists Don't Know Nothing.
  14.The Consumer Price Index is a Lying Statistic.
  15.Religion and Ethnic Cleansing.
  16.Princeton and The Bomb.
  17.Jack Valenti and the V-Chip.
  18.Same-Sex Unions.
  19.Copyright Pirates.
  20.Why the Republicans Want to Abolish the IRS.
  21.Lessons in Tragedy.
  22."Stonewall" Gingrich; "Stonewall" Nixon.
  
  
  6. "Essay's Cold and Hot: A New Year's Potpourri." 95 pages. Published in January 1998. $10.
  Another batch of original essays including
  a review of the condition of the District of Columbia
  as it approaches its bicentennial celebration,
  analyses of the Supreme Court decisions that destroyed
  our nationality act and that has precluded serious
  campaign finance reform, a story about the late
  controversial prime minister of Greece, an argument
  that the U.S. Senate is behaving
  unconstitutionally,
  and a fantasy about Hollywood.
  
  Table of Contents
  1.Washington D.C. -- A House Divided
  2.Two of the worst Supreme Court Decisions of Recent Decades
  3.My Close Friend Andreas Papandreou
  4.The Senate is Dysfunctional
  5.Frank Mahin
  6.Scolding Science About the Common Cold
  7.The Ten Best Films of 2007
  
  7. "MSS Revisited." 72 pages. Published in April 1998. $7.
  A brief history of MSS magazine,
  an undergraduate literary journal published at
  Princeton University in 1949-51,
  followed by four MSS short stories authored by Jose Donoso, Walter Clemons, Jr., and R. V. Keeley.
  The stories concern a woman's nose job, a child's fear
  of his father, boredom at a gas company,
  and the Greek civil war.
  Included are obituaries of Donoso, the premier
  novelist of modern Chile, and of Clemons, a literary critic
  long featured in Newsweek magazine.
  
  Table of Contents
  1.Introduction
  2.1973 Letter from Donoso to Keeley
  3.Obituary of Jose Donoso, by Robert D. McFadden
  4.A Note on Copyright Permissions
  5.Memorial of Walter Clemons, Jr.
  6."The Blue Woman," by Jose Donoso
  7."The Poisoned Pastries," by Jose Donoso
  8."Business," by Walter Clemons, Jr.
  9."Greek Epiphanies," by R.V. Keeley
  10. Publications of the Five and Ten Press Inc.
  
  8. "Three Sea Stories." 102 pages. Published in October 1999. $10.
  Fictionalized memoirs. Lessons learned by a fairly innocent
  16-year-old working as an engine room "wiper" on a merchant marine
  voyage, by an ambitious 24-year-old green ensign on U.S. Coast Guard
  weather patrol in the North Atlantic, and by a naive 29-year-old in a
  curious encounter with a hospitalized sea captain.
  
  Table of Contents
  1."The Captain's Indifference" 2."The Captain's Obsession" 3." The Captain's Liberty"
  
  9. "Innocents of the Latter Day: Modern Americans Abroad." 98 pages. Published in May 1997. $10.
  By Ambassador James W. Spain,
  a retired American Foreign Service Officer, resident of Sri Lanka, and writer of distinction.
  Eleven stories about the Foreign Service of the United States. Set in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Kenya, Tanzania, and Switzerland. They tell of the ups and downs, ins and outs, problems and passions of the American diplomatic service, using wit, insight, satire, irony, and nostalgia to beguile the reader. They concern exasperating VIP visits, egomaniacal officials, missionaries with a mission, American exiles and lost souls, consular predicaments, spooky encounters, generation gaps, obnoxious host governments, and eccentric ambassadors. This is the Press's first work of fiction.
  
  Table of Contents
  1.Going Home
  2.A Most Important VIP
  3.The Right Way to Make Bricks
  4.A Question of Justice
  5.Counting on the Consul
  6.The VP Makes a Point
  7.The Younger Generation
  8.Living Dangerously
  9.The Art of Persuasion
  10.Copping a Plea
  11.The Girls from Mkubwakuwa
  
  10. "Creatures of the Earth and the Mind." 60 pages. Published in October 1998. $6.
  By Ambassador Carl Coon, a retired American Foreign Service Officer, resident of Washington, D.C., and writer of distinction. Ten charming and poignant essays and fictional stories mostly about animal life, starting with an encounter with Lord Ganesh the elephant god, moving on to a duck, a beaver, turkeys and vultures, seventeen-year locusts, various pet dogs and cats, and ending with a provocative essay in which the author argues that the latest stage in the theory of biological evolutionary development concerns the "memes" of the human mind.
  
  Table of Contents
  1.Introduction
  2.On Consulting a God
  3.The Turkey
  4.Seventeen
  5.David the Duck
  6.Bert's Bark
  7.Culture Vulture
  8.A Beaver's Tale
  9.Dogs and Cats
  10.God's'doG
  11.Creatures of the Mind
  
  
  
  11. "My Commute." 76 pages. Published in December1998. $14 ($10 for subscribers).
  By Alison Autobound Axel.
  This novella is a fictionalized memoir dedicated to the disappeared of American corporate life. Its main motif, as the title suggests, is narrator Alison's commute to and from CHN Crumbles, Inc., a multinational corporation in which she works at a relatively low-level clerical job, in a cubicle. Alison has a vision, appropriate for the millennium, showing that for all of us to survive, workers must unite in a cooperative union, emulating the bees. Alison's daily commute becomes a metaphor for her life as she interacts with the menaces on the highway and the equally grim hazards of company politics. Chinese fortune-cookie aphorisms become her guiding philosophy. Among the other characters are: Freddie, a womanizing, vindictive manager; Stephanie, a young, fast-track executive who caters to Freddie and is mentored by him; Inez, another middle-management striver who tries to emulate him; Rose-Says-Not-to-Tell, a co-worker who relays company gossip; Celeste, a white-magic witch who tries to improve life in the department; and Janice, Alison's friend, who takes no nonsense from the corporate brass. Alison's observations of her company's de-jobbing practices, its managers' strategies and foibles, and her co-workers' concerns, complaints, and day-to-day struggles to survive should hit home with any reader who has recently worked for a major American corporation.
  
  12. "Sic Transit." 68 pages. Published in December 1999. $6.
  By Carl Coon
  author of publication No. 9. Thirteen essays, some satirical, some humorous, all addressing the human condition by a writer who has a distinctive voice, is often eccentric but always serious, possibly a curmudgeon, who admits at times to being an "old fogey." The subjects are power, the military mind, foreign affairs, Morocco, Nepal, marital relations, gender differences, generational differences, New York City, the Pope, cyberspace, and lots more.
  
  Table of Contents
  1.Power
  2.Marcos
  3.The Military Mind
  4.Screw-Up
  5.Bir
  6.Trivia
  7.Garlands
  8.The Tropicalizing of American Youth
  9.Fantasia
  10.Mordor is out
  11.The Pope Knows
  12.The Twilight of American Manhood
  13.The Intimacy of Cyberspace
  
  13. "The Great Phelsuma Caper (A Diplomatic Memoir)." 140 pages. Published in December 2000. $10.
  It's about more than geckos...
  
  Phelsumas are day geckos, friendly small lizards that are harmless to
  humans but devastating to insects. You need to have some in your home,
  especially if you live in the tropics. This story is about day geckos,
  but also about a lot of other things. There are some rare birds, like
  the pink pigeon and the Mauritius kestrel and parakeet, and a pet
  African black cheeked love bird named Emmet. "Endangered species" is a
  theme.
  
  Quite a few human actors also appear, some better known than others.
  Among the former are General Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, Richard Nixon,
  Queen Elizabeth II, Henry Kissinger, several United States Senators,
  renowned criminal defense attorney Plato Cacheris, and other famous
  people who make fleeting appearances. The lesser known characters
  include an avian ethologist (mistaken for an ornithologist), a Mauritian
  forester-bureaucrat, one ambassador admired by his staff, another
  ambassador despised, and still another ambassador addicted to playing
  practical jokes on his friends.
  
  There are also some organizations involved, such as Black September
  terrorists, Exxon and Texaco, the World Wildlife Fund, the U. S. Customs
  Service, the San Antonio Zoo, a publication called Agapornis World, and
  the Organization of African Unity. Locales include Uganda, Cambodia,
  Mauritius, Diego Garcia (a place, not a person), Boston, San Antonio,
  and Washington.
  
  It certainly sounds complicated, but it all comes together at the end,
  which would be unfair to signal in advance. If it sounds like a badly
  constructed novel, it is actually a work of what the author calls
  "factual fiction," that is, a mostly true story that has been
  embellished by passing it through the memory function of the human mind.
  
  It is not to be taken seriously. Fortunately, in this free country, the
  USA, we have the First Amendment, as well as statutes of limitation.
  
  
  14. "The Port of Missing Men (A Novel)." 253 pages. Published in June 2001. $14.95: ($10 for subscribers). By Alain Prevost.
  
  (Out of print. May be available new or used from amazon.com.)
  
  Translated from the French by Ralph Woodward. Original title: Le port des absents (1967).
  
  This novel's setting is Princeton University and other places in the
  eastern United States, as well as France. The time is the late 1940's
  and early 1950's. The hero, Gregoire, is French, a college student at an
  American university. It is a coming-of-age story as Gregoire matures
  emotionally and intellectually in interactions with his fellow American
  students and through a love affair with his Aunt Laura. Strong themes
  are cross-cultural communication, and growth from innocense to
  sophistication. The translator was the author's roommate at Princeton in
  the Class of 1951. The author died in 1971 at the age of 41.
  
  Alain Prevost, leaning certainly on experience, portrays the scene at
  a great American university. At his Princeton...one meets young men like
  overgrown boys, crazy about sports, jazz, fond of parties and alcohol,
  ridiculously snobbish about their clubs, but morally mature,
  well-informed in politics and religion, and cultivated enough to read
  seriously in Chaucer, Kierkegaard and Melville.
  
  Pierre-Henri Simon,
  L'Academie Francaise
  
  "This is the first time that I have written about the United States,
  even though I lived there for seven years. But I forbade myself to write
  a book like this. Until now, I've based my novels on documentary
  evidence, you see, to be sure to have a main theme I would keep to. And
  I made myself stick to my theme to the very end. Writing was exhausting
  me, making me ill; I was not enjoying it. I had chosen my metier with
  the hope of writing one day a book in which one would not want to change
  a sentence, a word. Now, after eleven published volumes, I have acquired
  a taste for writing, I even like it. What does that prove? Nothing
  probably. Perhaps this Port of Missing Men isn't any different from
  the others. My permanent theme is childhood; I have never understood
  what it takes to be a grownup. This tale of youth is not at all like my
  own life. At fourteen I was an old man; when he lands in America the
  Gregoire of my book is not mature. But like me he is learning to live.
  In the end he wonders whether the life he had and left behind in the USA
  was happy, but he sees clearly that it had the colors of success."
  
  Alain Prevost, from a newspaper interview in
  Tribune de Lausanne, October 1967
  
  15. "Poetry Mostly Off The Beaten Track" 60 pages. Published in May 2001. $5. By Roy Herbert.
  
  This is a short course in understanding poetry written by Roy Herbert (1929-1996), whose
  profession was managing editor of the Reader's Digest and one of whose avocations was
  literature and poetry. Included are great poems of the past, by Catullus, the troubadours, Ezra
  Pound, Andrew Marvell, Baudelaire, Matthew Arnold, Shakespeare, and W.B. Yeats. Also
  included are previously unpublished poems by Roy Herbert, and appreciations of the late author
  by his widow, April Herbert, a sculptor, and Robert V. Keeley, a friend from college days at
  Princeton, both acting as editors of this volume. Author biography:
  Roy Herbert was educated at the Taft School, where he learned Latin among other subjects, and
  at Princeton, where he majored in English and wrote an honors thesis on the works of James
  Joyce. He was also a prominent campus journalist as editorial chairman of The Daily Princetonian,
  the undergraduate newspaper. His working life was at the Reader's Digest, where he became
  managing editor, before retiring at the early age of 53. He thereafter pursued his own interests in
  literature, art, philosophy, science and other subjects. He was a lifelong student and self-educator.
  Because of his love of poetry he was asked to lead a course discussion of poetry, the genesis of
  this book. Herbert was known for his intelligence, his wicked sense of humor and fun-loving spirit,
  his integrity, gentlemanly manner, and insatiable curiosity.
  
  Table of Contents
  1.The Man Behind the Lines
  2.Poetry Mostly Off the Beaten Track
  3.Editor's Note
  4.Addendum
  5.Poems by Roy Herbert
  6.Postscript
  7.Coda.
  
  16. Parting the Curtain: An American Teacher in Postcommunist Romania.107 pages. August 2001. $10. By Anne Coe Heyniger.
  
  (Out of print. May be available new or used from amazon.com.)
  
  A memoir by an American who makes a sudden life and work change by accepting a position teaching English at a university in Timisoara, Romania. She recounts her personal experiences there over seven years, from 1992 to 1999, as the country undergoes major transformations. Author Bio: Anne Coe Heyniger grew up in Washington D.C. and graduated from the Madeira School and Bryn Mawr College. She married a Foreign Service Officer and together they served in Jordan, Tanzania, and Zaire, as well as in Washington. After their divorce she lived in Washington, raised their three children, and worked in a variety of jobs. This is her first published book. Description: The subtitile is descriptive: "An American Teacher in Postcommunist Romania." The author, the ex-wife of a Foreign Service Officer and graduate of Bryn Mawr College, has raised three children as a single mother, while working for profit and non-profit organizations in Washington, D.C. With her children now grown, she somewhat impetuously accepts an offer from a visiting head of a university in Timisoara, Romania, to become a teacher of English at his university. She teaches there for the next 7 years, from 1992 to 1999, after which she returns to Washington. This is a personal memoir of those seven years living and working in postcommunist Romania, about her students, he colleagues at the university, the friends she makes, the trips she takes, with keen insights and remarkable observations of the life she led and of her surroundings, physical and human. She is an accomplished writer who tells a compelling story in her own words. Review: "A remarkable series of carefully drawn pictures of life in that challenging country. Anne has the gift of almost photographic insight and economy of words. The stories are vivid and poignant; collectively they paint an impressive mural of political, economic, social and cultural changes in an isolated but vibrant place. And the author's empathy with the people, her remarkable ability to interact with them in extraordinarily difficult circumstances comes through. It is an elegantly written work, a true picture of time and place by a talented writer and sensitive observer." Frederick Quinn, author of "Democracy at Dawn: Notes from Poland and Points East."
  
  
  17. Essays Near And Far: As a New Century Dawns. 124 pages. April 2002. $10. By Robert V. Keeley.
  A collection of nine original essays on topics related to diplomacy and foreign relations. Subjects include "civility" in diplomacy; U.S. relations with Greece; the turmoil in the Balkans; the Israel-Palestine problem; how to end the violence and bring about a peaceful solution; trying to define terrorism; and a biographic sketch of Nelson Mandela. Table of Contents 1. Civility in Diplomacy 2. U.S.-Greek Relations 3. Athenian Democracy 4. Problems in Intra-Balkan Relations 5. The Middle East Problem Has Been Solved 6. "Gaza-Jericho First" Is Only the Beginning 7. To End the Violence 8. Trying to Define Terrorism 9. Nelson Mandela: His Long Walk to Freedom
  
  18. Random Thoughts, Anecdotes, and Memories of a Boys' Latin School of Baltimore That Is No More.25 pages. Illustrated. January 2004. $5. By Don Hahn. The title is descriptive of the contents. The period is 1935-47. The author is a medical doctor in Mendocino, California, a graduate of Princeton, where he was a legendary star in lacrosse, and of Johns Hopkins. His father was headmaster of the school.
  
  19. From the Heartland.101 Pages. Maps included. February 2004. $10. By Carl Coon. New essays from this retired Foreign Service officer. First is a reminiscence of his service as U.S. consul in Tabriz, Iran. Followed by "From Osh to Lhasa," a travelogue of a 1993 exploration through large parts of formerly Soviet Central Asia (especially Kyrgyzstan), Chinese Turkestan (also known as Xinjiang province), and Tibet. Recounted are shrewd and amusing perceptions, observations, and adventures about a region little known to most Americans.
  
  20. One of the Very Best Men.56 pages Illustrated. March 2004. $5. By Robert Sherwood Dillon. The author is a retired American Foreign Service officer. This is a memoir of his post-high school years in the period 1946 to 1956, attending college in Virginia, serving as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army, later joining the CIA and serving under non-official cover in paramilitary operations from an island off the coast of Communist China, and later on Taiwan, before joining the Foreign Service in 1956. This story has not been cleared with any federal agencies, but given the long passage of time that was not necessary. In sum, an important historical document and revealing personal account.
  
  21. A Story Goes With It. 63 pages. Published in June 2004. $7. ISBN 1-892379-20-1. By George Garrett. "A Story Goes With It," a shotgun wedding of fact and fiction, tells one version of the tale of the Nazi saboteurs who landed here in America, in both Florida and Long Island, early in 1942. An almost comic and slapstick disaster from beginning to nearly the end, Operation Pastorius, as the Nazis named it, nevertheless came very close to succeeding, in large part because the American authorities reacted with equal ineptitude and matching inefficiency. Ending, seriously enough, with a dubious military tribunal and the prompt execution of all but two of the saboteurs, this story (among other things) demonstrates the inevitable vulnerability of large and complex modern societies to acts of terrorism. Partly based on research by the late John Edward Weems, author and editor, "A Story Goes With It" also adds a fictional but highly probable component to the known facts of this unusual event in our nation's history.
  
  22. Low Crimes and Misdemeanors in High Places: John Mitchell and Watergate. 51 pages. November 2004. $5. By Edmund Keeley.
  This thoroughly-researched reexamination and retelling of the Watergate scandal focuses on the role of John Mitchell, President NixonÕs former law partner, his attorney general, and manager of his 1972 re-election campaign. Mitchell became the fall-guy, eventually convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury, and served 19 months in prison. But that didnÕt save Nixon, who was forced to resign for the attempted cover-up. Mitchell comes across as a somewhat different person than his image in the press, as confirmed by one of his defense attorneys, Plato Cacheris. It was MitchellÕs unwavering loyalty to Nixon that did him in, in contrast with NixonÕs attempt to escape responsibility by placing the blame on Mitchell. The last sentence of this account wonders if in the end Mitchell still considered Nixon one of his friends.
  
  23. The World According to Whitbeck. 105 pages. April 2005. $10. By John V. Whitbeck.
  A collection of twenty essays about the Middle East, focused primarily on the Israel-Palestine conflict, written over the years 2000 to 2005 and published originally and extensively in media in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. The themes stress the author's imaginative solutions to this problem first explained in the essays "Two States, One Holy Land" and "Sharing Jerusalem: The Condominium Solution." Later essays examine the issue of terrorism. John V. Whitbeck is an American international lawyer now living and working in Saudi Arabia as well as in France. A graduate of Harvard College and its Law School, he has served on a number of occasions as an adviser to Palestinian leaders and negotiators of the "peace process." Since 1988 his articles on behalf of Middle East peace have been published more than 450 times in more than 70 Arab, Israeli, and international newspapers, magazines, journals and books.
  
  
  
  24. An American Soldier in World War I 49 pages. Photo and maps. Published in June 2005. $5. By Robert Sherwood Dillon.
  Another memoir, a story that would not exist if it had not been lived by the subject, if the author had not chosen to write it, and if this press had not been there to publish it and thus preserve it. The soldier, the author's father, Dale Crowell Dillon, fought in France during the last phase of World War I, as a member of a Kansas Engineers company in the 35th Division, was seriously wounded in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, but ever afterward was reticent to talk about his experience (as recounted here, from multiple sources, the story of a private soldier in that bloodiest of conflicts to that time). Asked by his grandson what the war was like, Private Dillon simply replied: "You don't want to know."
  
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  { INTRODUCTION }
  { PUBLICATIONS OF THE FIVE AND TEN PRESS 1995-2005 }
  { ORDER FORM }
  {ROBERT KEELEY'S BIOGRAPHICAL DATA}
  {D.C. GOVERNANCE: IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A MATTER OF RACE AND MONEY}
  {ANNALS OF INVESTING:
  STEVE FORBES VS. WARREN BUFFETT }
  { THE FILE : A PRINCETON MEMOIR }
  {ESSAYS FAST AND LOOSE:
  A CHRISTMAS MISCELLANY }
  {LETTERS MOSTLY UNPUBLISHED}
  { INNOCENTS OF THE LATTER DAY:
  MODERN AMERICANS ABROAD }
  { ESSAYS COLD AND HOT: A New Year's Potpourri }
  { MSS Revisited }
  { THREE SEA STORIES }
  {CREATURES OF THE EARTH AND THE MIND}
  {MY COMMUTE}
  {SIC TRANSIT}
  {THE GREAT PHELSUMA CAPER - A DIPLOMATIC MEMOIR}
  {THE PORT OF MISSING MEN - A NOVEL}
  { POETRY MOSTLY OFF THE BEATEN TRACK }
  { PARTING THE CURTAIN }
  { ESSAYS NEAR AND FAR: AS A NEW CENTURY DAWNS }
  { RANDOM THOUGHTS, ANECDOTES, AND MEMORIES OF A BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE THAT IS NO MORE }
  { FROM THE HEARTLAND }
  { ONE OF THE VERY BEST MEN }
  { A STORY GOES WITH IT }
  { LOW CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN HIGH PLACES: John Mitchell and Watergate. }
  { THE WORLD ACCORDING TO WHITBECK. }
  { AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN WORLD WAR I. }
  
  
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