Prince Souphan of Laos arrived at Lambert Field on November 30, 1959, to a proper St. Louis reception led by thedeputy mayor and the head of the board of aldermen. The young prince was in town to attend a dinner sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce honoring a thirty-two-year-old native St. Louisan who -- seven years after being nearly expelled from a local medical school -- was returning home as a hero, celebrated the world over for providing medicine and inspiration to Vietnamese refugees and Lao villagers. The prince told reporters assembled at the airportthat Dr. Tom Dooley, better known to his grateful Lao admirers as Thanh Mo America ("Dr. America"), had made such a profound impact in Southeast Asia that communist radio broadcasts frantically denounced him as an American spy and regularly demanded his expulsion from Laos. The Jaycees had backed Dr. Dooley's work since 1956, when he had first traveled to Laos to build a clinic financed in part by royalties from Deliver Us from Evil, a best-selling chronicle of his central role in the U.S. Navy's autumn 1954 campaign to transplant Catholic North Vietnamese refugees to a newly created state in the South. Crawford King, a St. Louis Jaycee who ran his family's burial monument business, had volunteered to supervise the entertainment of the visiting dignitary during his brief stay in the Gateway to the West. The prince told King that he wanted to see some American dancing girls.

Before I Sleep..., The Last Days of Dr. Tom Dooley

Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy

The Assistant

Frank Alpine, an Italian -American drifter on the run from his past, stumbles into the orbit of struggling Brooklyn grocer Morris Bober.  Seeing a chance to atone for his sins, Frank becomes Bober's stock boy and runs the store when the owner takes ill.  But it is Bober's daughter , Helen , who gives Frank a real reason to turn his life around.  Considered one of the greastest Jewish novels ever written.  The Assistant is a classic look at social and racial divides of America in the early twentieth century.  Filled with riveting scenes of life on the edge, this is an enduring story of how love and the human spirit can triumph over any adversity.

MALAMUD, BERNARD

Literature & Fiction

Cultivation of Christmas Trees by Eliot, T.S.

The Cultivation of Christmas Trees

ELIOT, T.S.

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Deliver Us from Evil

Dooley, Thomas

Literary

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The Elder Statesman

Contemporary

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Mountain Standard Time

HORGAN, Paul

The Natural

BERNARD MALAMUD

Sy Levin is his own worst enemy. Former drunkard and newly appointed instructor at Cascadia College, his attempts to make something of his future out of the ruins of his past are continually frustrated by those miniature disasters which impede every man's grand design.

A New Life

"This is a chronologically arranged collection of prose and poetry (the earliest here, dating from 1917-1919) characterized by spontaneity and wit. ... For Wilson followers, who are fondly familiar with his writing, this offers some delightful insights." - Kirkus Reviews

Night Thoughts

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A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles that stand between them and the “Acceptance World.”

The Acceptance World

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