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John W. Dower

John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938, in Providence, Rhode Island[1]) is an American author and historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction,[2] the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction,[3] the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize,[4] and the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association.[5]

John W. Dower

(1938-06-21) June 21, 1938
Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Author and historian

English

American

Amherst College, Harvard University

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986)
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999)

1986: , War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

National Book Critics Circle Award

2000: , Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II[14]

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

2000: , Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award

2000: , Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Bancroft Prize

Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award

2007: elected to the [15]

American Philosophical Society

Origins of the Modern Japanese State: Selected Writings of E.H. Norman (1975; ; ISBN 0-394-70927-6)

Pantheon

(1986; Pantheon; ISBN 0-394-75172-8)

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese experience, 1878–1954 (1988; Harvard University Press;  0-674-25126-1)

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Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays (1995; New Press;  1-56584-279-0)

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"The Bombed: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japanese Memory", 19, no. 2 (Spring 1995)

Diplomatic History

(1999; W. W. Norton) — winner of the National Book Award,[2] John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association, and Pulitzer Prize[3]

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq (New York: Norton : New Press, 2010;  978-0-393-06150-5).

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Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World (The New Press, 2011)

The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II (Haymarket Books, 2017;  1608467236).

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at IMDb

John W. Dower

Faculty website

David Wallis, , The New York Times Magazine interview, March 30, 2003

"The Way We Live Now: 3-30-03: Questions For John W. Dower; Occupation Preoccupation"

Amherst College Honorary Doctorate announcement

: Website created by Dower

Visualizing Cultures

by MIT CSSA

On the "Visualizing Cultures" Controversy and Its Implications

Peter C. Perdue, , MIT Faculty Newsletter, Vol. XVIII, No. 5, May / June 2006.

Reflections on the "Visualizing Cultures" Incident

on C-SPAN

Appearances

at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections

John W. Dower (AC 1959) Papers