This work chronicles the life of Tom Dooley, the doctor whose publicized exploits in Vietnam and Laos during the 1950s, helped lay the ideological groundwork for the US military intervention a decade later. A deeply religious Roman Catholic, Dooley was a playboy socialite, yet devoted to the poor.
- ISBN10 1558490671
- ISBN13 9781558490673
- Publish Date 1 April 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Massachusetts Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 356
- Language English