Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961
(Part of the Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond Series)
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Book Overview
This book chronicles the life of Tom Dooley, the American doctor whose much-publicized exploits in Vietnam and Laos during the 1950s helped lay the ideological groundwork for the U.S. military intervention a decade later. The scion of an upper-middle-class St. Louis family, Dooley was an enormously complex and fascinating individual. He was a devoutly religious Roman Catholic as well as a self-styled playboy socialite, a devoted physician to the poor...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1558491546
ISBN13:9781558491540
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
Customer Reviews
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compassionately written!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I bought this book with some trepidation, because Tom Dooley was a great hero of my childhood and I was geared up to feel defensive about the book's theme. But it was compassionately and non-judgementally written and I was on the whole pleasantly surprised by it! It also speaks volumes about discrimination, defamation, and inflicting shame upon good people who don't "fit into the {percieved-by-society} norm" where sexual orientation is concerned.
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