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John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938, in Providence, Rhode Island) 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 ...
John Dower, emeritus professor of Japanese history, retired from the History faculty in 2010 but remains active in MIT’s online “Visualizing Cultures” project, a pioneering website he co-founded in 2002 that breaks new ground in the scholarly use of visual materials to reexamine the experience of Japan and China in the modern world.
Mar 28, 2012 · In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful,...
JOHN W. DOWER is professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he joined the faculty of history in the early 1990s and retired in 2010. Earlier academic appointments include the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1971-1985) and University of California at San Diego (1986-1991).
Jan 1, 2001 · In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War—race—while writing what John Toland has called “a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.”
Apr 12, 2000 · Professor John W. Dower has won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction for Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. The news was a pleasant surprise to Professor Dower, who'd heard rumors in literary circles that he was not serious contender.
John W. Dower is the author of Embracing Defeat, winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; War without Mercy, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and...
