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James T. Fisher holds the Danforth Chair in Humanities at Saint Louis University, where he is also a professor of history and theological studies

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Fisher, James Terence
Födelsedag
1956
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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.… (mer)
 
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booksaplenty1949 | 2 andra recensioner | Oct 20, 2018 |
WSJ 9/9/2009 "Mr. Fisher details the dockside story with admirable care, but the story he is most eager to tell is the one about the making of the movie "On the Waterfront." In 1949, a production company bought the rights to Johnson's expose and hired Budd Schulberg to transform it into a screenplay. Schulberg soon befriended Father Corridan, who showed him the real waterfront."
 
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pjgimino | Sep 23, 2009 |
history, america, vietnam, laos, southeast asia, roman catholocism, biography
 
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ddonahue | 2 andra recensioner | Sep 16, 2006 |

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5
Medlemmar
159
Popularitet
#132,375
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½ 3.6
Recensioner
4
ISBN
21
Språk
1

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