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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.
John is one of the UK’s leading documentary directors. His feature Thriller in Manila was in competition at Sundance, was BAFTA and Emmy nominated, and won a Grierson and a Peabody Award. His film Bradley Wiggins: A Year In Yellow was BAFTA nominated in the Best Director category.
John Dower is emeritus professor of history at the Massachusetts institute of Technology. His prize-winning scholarship on Japan and the United States includes War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986) and Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999).
1 Jan 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.”
28 Mac 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...
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 Cultures of War. He is professor emeritus of history at MIT.
