Daily Catholic: Dr. Tom Dooley - http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/archives/1999Aug/149aug10,vol.10,no.149txt/aug10top.htm
Voted number 88 in a list of top Catholics of the 20th century by web site's visitors. Profile by Tracy Dowling portrays Dooley as a model Catholic, and denies the charges of his detractors that he was homosexual or a tool of the CIA. |
Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 - http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/tamborine/175/articles/DrTomDooley/LivesOfTomDooley.htm
Prologue excerpted from the book by James T. Fisher. Dr. Tom Dooley, Catholic folk hero, meets the Kingston Trio, "collegiate" folk singers whose rendition of the song "Tom Dooley" was in the Top Ten for 4 months. |
Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 - http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/reviews/090297re.htm
Book review by Warren Arronchic. This biography of a gay man doesn't focus on his homosexuality; it shows how a media darling was used by the military to make a war in Vietnam more palatable. [Gay Today] |
The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley: A Cautionary Tale - http://aquinas-multimedia.com/catherine/dooley.html
James T. Fisher's 1998 biographical book "Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961" reviewed by Catholic doctor and apologist Arthur C. Sippo. During the Cold War, American Catholics needed a hero. But the mythology surrounding Dooley proved fraudulent. [St. Catherine Review] |
Thomas A. Dooley Collection - http://archives1.archives.nd.edu/guide/165.htm
Finding aid for this special collection of papers and artifacts in the University of Notre Dame Archives. Also a brief description of the scope and content of the collection. |
Tom Dooley - http://www.irishlegends.com/pages/campuslife/campuslife11.html
Includes a reprint of an article about Dooley from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Dooley's letter to Fr. Hesburgh. [Reflections from the Dome] |
Tommy, We Hardly Know You - http://www.culturewars.com/CultureWars/Archives/cw_feb98/Dooley.html
James Sullivan reviews James T. Fisher's "Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961." Although Dooley did have many admirable qualities, the book is a disturbing revelation of how he was used by anti-Catholic elitists to further their political goals. [Culture Wars] |
What Tommy Knew - http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/fisher-america.html
The first chapter of James T. Fisher's book "Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961." |