Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
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Thomas A. Dooley's 1956 bestseller, Deliver Us from Evil, "quite literally located Vietnam on the map," as this provocative critical biography puts it. Dooley's passionately anticommunist description of evacuating Catholic refugees from North Vietnam made him a Cold War celebrity and a particular hero to his fellow American Catholics, who had no idea he campaigned relentlessly for his glowing press and spent his spare time pursuing not-very- closeted homosexual affairs. The brief life (1927-61) of this fascinatingly complex character here gets the thoughtful assessment and rich historical context it deserves.
The New York Times Book Review, Michael Sherry
...Fisher, the author of The Catholic Counterculture in America 1933-1962, deftly shows how religion, cold-war intrigue and show-biz shenanigans came together in Dr. America,. Dooley, he persuasively argues, helped to pull American Catholicism away from its insular, angry anti-Communism, providing "the bridge between Joe McCarthy and Jack Kennedy, to the great benefit of the latter."
Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
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