From: The Christian Century | Date: February 4, 1998| Author: Unsworth, Tim | COPYRIGHT 1998 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

By James T. Fisher University Of Massachusetts Press, 304 pp., $29.95.

In 1959 Dr. Tom Dooley was listed as one of the most admired men in the world. He has now been in his St. Louis grave longer than e lived--he died of a malignant melanoma in 1961 at the age of 34. Even before his death, sincere followers were referring to him as "Blessed Tom of Laos."

Near the famed Grotto to Our Lady at the University of Notre Dame, where Tom Dooley spent an interrupte...