Promises to Keep: The Life of Dr. Thomas W. Dooley by Agnes W. Dooley (1962, Hardcover with dust jacket). Assumed First Edition. Has 1962 copyrigth date and $4.95 price mark indicated at front dust jacket flap. Blue cloth with gold/gilt letterint at spine. Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Company. Approx. dimensions are 5 3/4 inches (w) by 8 1/2 inches (h). 272 pages.

Note: RARE First Edition (Not a Book Club Edition. Includes an original invoice from The Catholic Literary Foundation for "January, 1963" (see last photo).  

"Thisis account of the life of Doctor Tom Dooley was  has written by his mother, Mrs. Agnes Dooley. It is the story of a man whose background was typically American, but whose development, life work and final destiny were anything but typical. The text and pictures cover young Tom Dooley's rowing up in St. Louis, his education in local schools, including St. Louis University High School, his first year at Notre Dame, "boot" training in the Navy, transfer to the Marines, return to college, study at the Sor-bonne, entrance into St. Louis university School of Medicine, and commissioning as a U. S. Navy officer. ' 

The steps, some of them accidental, by which the young unknown Navy doctor was at this point catapulted into national prominence are recounted by Mrs. Dooley. It happened in 1954, when Lieutenant (junior grade) Dooley found himself ordered to Haiphong with a few Navy corpsmen to give medical aid to the hundreds of thousands of refugees who took the "Passage to Freedom* out of Northern Viet Nam." 

Condition: Book is VERY GOOD / FINE with light cover/corner/edge wear. Bright cloth boards with crisp lettering at spine. Binding is firm and pages appear clean with light wear. No marks, stains or odors noted. Un-clipped dust jacket (DJ) is Poor with notable wear including tears and paper loss etc. Please review photos to further evaluate condition. 

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