MIDNIGHT DITTIES

About the Book

An eclectic wide-ranging selection of essays, vignettes, and narrations under various heads including: • Historical Narratives – In World War II, the Japanese aviator who bombed America twice from the air, and the Japanese underwater aircraft carriers • The Man-In-The-Arena who organized a bank from his attic office • The English Language celebrating the work of poet Robert Frost when he visited the University of Virginia • Body Politics – One-Line Political Reversals • A Medical Summary on Reversing Heart Disease • The Recognition of several of the Invincible Heroes of the Greatest Generation There is a focus on tow Opinion Editorials with a clarion call-to-arms to overthrow in America the possibility of one-man autocratic rule threatening our Democratic form of government.

About the Author

R. Conley Ricker, Jr., founder of Virginia Commerce Bank, N.A., organized the bank from his attic office in 1987-1988, which became the largest community bank head-quartered in Northern Virginia with 28-Branch Banking Offices and assets of nearly $3 billion before being acquired by United Bank of Charleston, West Virginia. He received his BA and his MBA from the University of Virginia after which his career focused on engineering the financial turnaround of troubled banks in the Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia areas. Residing in Winter Hill in Falls Church, Virginia, he is the author of our books: Big Cedar Farewell, The Baton, A Memoir: Grandeur Unexpected, and Midnight Ditties.