Here’s the thing: Dooley made it all up.
"Who wouldn't be moved by the story of a young doctor who had fought communism with penicillin or disarmed the communist Viet Minh with a smile?"
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The book "[took] Vietnam from the edge of American awareness to the core of its consciousness"
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The book "[took] Vietnam from the edge of American awareness to the core of its consciousness"
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But it was all fiction: "Those things never happened… I traveled all over the country and never saw anything like them."
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Does this sound familiar?
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"I didn’t know exactly where this Tom Dooley guy existed, but I knew that he was doing 2 things: he was holding back Communism, and he was curing starved looking asian children"
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