Japan in War and Peace; Selected Essays
New York: New Press, 1993. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 368, [4] pages. Tables. Figures (illustrations). Notes. Sources. Index. John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938) 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, the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association. Dower earned a bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1959, and a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 1972. He expanded his dissertation, a biography of former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida, into Empire and Aftermath. His other books include a selection of writings by E. Herbert Norman and a study of mutual images during World War II entitled War Without Mercy. Dower was the executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima. More