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- catalog abstract "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 self-styled playboy socialite, a devoted physician to the poor and a tireless propagandist for the "Vietnam Lobby," a shameless self-promoter and a closeted homosexual, a victim of Navy persecution and a beneficiary of CIA support. Dooley first gained notoriety as a young Navy doctor charged with overseeing the evacuation of Catholic refugees from North Vietnam in the wake of the 1954 Geneva Accords. His celebrity grew after his book Deliver Us from Evil, a fervently anticommunist account of his experiences, was serialized in Reader's Digest. By the end of the decade, as his name became associated (albeit mistakenly) with a ballad popularized by the Kingston Trio, he had achieved the status of "America's first pop star saint." In addition to exposing the roots of the Vietnam War, Dooley's story illuminates a broad range of developments in post-World War II United States culture - from the "Americanization" of Catholicism to the rise of the mass media.".
- catalog alternative "Doctor America".
- catalog contributor b10235986.
- catalog coverage "Southeast Asia History 1945-".
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1945-".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Dooley first gained notoriety as a young Navy doctor charged with overseeing the evacuation of Catholic refugees from North Vietnam in the wake of the 1954 Geneva Accords. His celebrity grew after his book Deliver Us from Evil, a fervently anticommunist account of his experiences, was serialized in Reader's Digest. By the end of the decade, as his name became associated (albeit mistakenly) with a ballad popularized by the Kingston Trio, he had achieved the status of "America's first pop star saint." In addition to exposing the roots of the Vietnam War, Dooley's story illuminates a broad range of developments in post-World War II United States culture - from the "Americanization" of Catholicism to the rise of the mass media.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-293) and index.".
- catalog description "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 self-styled playboy socialite, a devoted physician to the poor and a tireless propagandist for the "Vietnam Lobby," a shameless self-promoter and a closeted homosexual, a victim of Navy persecution and a beneficiary of CIA support.".
- catalog extent "x, 304 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Dr. America.".
- catalog identifier "1558490671 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Dr. America.".
- catalog isPartOf "Culture, politics, and the Cold War".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
- catalog relation "Dr. America.".
- catalog spatial "Southeast Asia History 1945-".
- catalog spatial "Southeast Asia".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1945-".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "1997 F-887".
- catalog subject "610/.92 B 21".
- catalog subject "Cold War.".
- catalog subject "Dooley, Thomas A. (Thomas Anthony), 1927-1961.".
- catalog subject "Medical Missions, Official Southeast Asia Biography.".
- catalog subject "Medical Missions, Official United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Missionaries, Medical Southeast Asia Biography.".
- catalog subject "Missions, Medical Southeast Asia Biography.".
- catalog subject "Physicians Southeast Asia Biography.".
- catalog subject "Physicians United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Politics Southeast Asia Biography.".
- catalog subject "Politics United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "R722.32.D66 F57 1997".
- catalog subject "WZ 100 D691F 1997".
- catalog title "Doctor America".
- catalog title "Dr. America : the lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 / James T. Fisher.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".