These are sketches about the life and times that Keating travelled. His first book was RIDING THE FINCE LINES: Riding the Fences that Define the Margins of Religious Tolerance; he is joined by five co-authors: Muslim scholar Jewish rabbi Catholic priest Protestant minister and Buddhist minister. Keating's second book BUFFALO GAP FRONTIER is a personal historical account of the settling of the Last Frontier in South Dakota and Wyoming. He is joined by two co-authors: a pioneer rancher and a Lakota from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. His third book 1960s DECADE OF DISSENT: The Way We Were is a historical novel written about the times on the U.C. Berkeley when the author was a student.