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Cargando... Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)por James T. Fisher
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A follow-up to a recent reading of Dooley's "Three Great Books." The background of The Ugly American is also discussed in some detail. A highly readable biography, contextualised with an analysis of America's evolving Cold War policy in South-East Asia in the 1950s, and of the post-war emergence of American Catholics into the mainstream. Dooley's life as a gay man is given the prominence of course entirely missing from his own writings. But Fisher does not look for easy explanations of Dooley's compicated personality, an inspirational charmer who could also be a self-indulgent bully. Fisher emphasises loss and failure at the end of Dooley's brief life: the dismantling of MEDICO, Dooley's medical charity, and the scrutiny of his methods which had started to undermine the hagiography of previous press coverage. A scholarly book with forty pages of footnotes. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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