Download or read book Dr. America written by James Terence Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of the fabled "jungle doctor" of Southeast Asia, "Dr. America" chronicles the life of Tom Dooley, 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. 33 illustrations.