Keith Fleming

The first of two volumes containing stories by Keith Fleming (pseudonym of female author K. E. Fitz-Patrick). This volume contains the novellas 'By the Night Express', 'Dolores', and 'Love Stronger than Death', the novel "Can Such Things Be?", and the short stories 'So Innocent', 'The Transfiguration of Lettice Willoughby', and 'The Red Skirt'. Until now, next to nothing was known about the author. This volume contains a 21-page biographical essay by Gina R. Collia revealing a large amount of new information about the writer's background and life-'Most Unassuming in Demeanour': The Life of K. E. Fitz-Patrick."Can Such Things Be?"-'There is enough horror to make a nervous person's hair stand on end, "like quills upon the fretful porpentine." ' Light, January 1890.

The second of two volumes containing stories by Keith Fleming (pseudonym of female author K. E. Fitz-Patrick). This volume contains two novels, At the Eleventh Hour and The Sins of the Fathers, and the short stories 'The Courage of Kathie', 'An Audacious Wager', and 'Garth Austin's Strategy'.Until now, next to nothing was known about the author. This volume contains a 21-page biographical essay by Gina R. Collia revealing a large amount of new information about the writer's background and life-'Most Unassuming in Demeanour': The Life of K. E. Fitz-Patrick.'At the Eleventh Hour must be pronounced a novel of conspicuous power and deep interest... This is a novel that may be read with a great deal of pleasure.' The Scotsman, 22 June 1891.

One of Canada’s most outspoken and respected advocates of internationalism during the early Cold War, John King Gordon had a remarkably eclectic professional life. Keith R. Fleming’s biography of Gordon explores the man’s many careers, from his start as a Manitoba clergyman in the 1920s to his work as a United Nations field officer in Korea, the Middle East, and the Congo. In “The World Is Our Parish,” Fleming traces how Gordon’s passion for social reform and humanitarianism led him to become a clergyman, a political activist, a journalist, a professor, and one of Canada’s leading advocates of liberal internationalism in the years after World War Two. An exceptional biography of an extraordinary but little-known Canadian, “The World Is Our Parish” uses Gordon’s professional and intellectual journey to reveal the confluence of liberal Christianity, social democracy, and internationalism in Canadian politics and thought.

One of Canada’s most outspoken and respected advocates of internationalism during the early Cold War, John King Gordon had a remarkably eclectic professional life. Keith R. Fleming’s biography of Gordon explores the man’s many careers, from his start as a Manitoba clergyman in the 1920s to his work as a United Nations field officer in Korea, the Middle East, and the Congo. In “The World Is Our Parish,” Fleming traces how Gordon’s passion for social reform and humanitarianism led him to become a clergyman, a political activist, a journalist, a professor, and one of Canada’s leading advocates of liberal internationalism in the years after World War Two. An exceptional biography of an extraordinary but little-known Canadian, “The World Is Our Parish” uses Gordon’s professional and intellectual journey to reveal the confluence of liberal Christianity, social democracy, and internationalism in Canadian politics and thought.

This book describes the history of a tragic event in USMC history and of how its impact led to reforms. In 1956 a Marine drill instructor led his recruit platoon on a punitive night march across Ribbon Creek, a tidal stream at the Parris Island, South Carolina, recruit depot. Six men drowned, and the resulting court-martial became a national media sensation putting the future of the corps into question. Written by a senior historian at the Marine Corps Historical Center, ""The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis"" explores the social, political, and historical context of this tragic moment in U.S. military history as a case study in how bureaucratic institutions undertake internal reform and offering a valuable vantage point on tensions in American society during the 1950s.

At sixteen, Keith Fleming is so miserably defiant that he is locked in an adolescent mental hospital. Filled with despair, Keith's life is literally saved by his uncle, the writer Edmund White. Keith soon finds himself transformed as Uncle Ed arranges treatment for Keith's disfiguring acne, enrolls him in prep school, and instructs his nephew in a worldly view of life and love. Meanwhile, Uncle Ed is both strapped for cash and completely caught up in the beehive of social and sexual activity of 1970s gay Manhattan.By turns lyrical, funny, and poignant, The Boy with the Thorn in His Side is full of fascinating characters and unexpected twists -- at once an odyssey into the extremes of the American 1970s, a universal tale of star-crossed teenage love, and an account of a deeply sensitive young person's struggle to find his place in the world.