John W. Dower (b. 1938) is an American author, professor, and historian; his primary focus is modern Japan and U.S.-Japan relations. He is perhaps best known for his book, "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II", which won the Pulitzer Prize in Letters for General Nonfiction, the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize in American History, and the Yamagata Banto Prize for Creative Work on Japan by a Non-Japanese Scholar. Wikipedia
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The Elting E. Morison Professor of History at M.I.T., Dower graduated from Amherst in 1959, majoring in American Studies. www.amherst.edu/commencement/2002/honorary/dower.html
Professor JOHN DOWER (Author, "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II"): I felt very good. www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1558&QueryText=Do...
The definitive Wikipedia entry for John W. Dower. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W%2e_Dower
This is not about censorship Since then, Dr. Dower and Dr. Miyagawa have successfully relaunched the Visualizing Cultures Website, with constructive feedback from CSSA officers before and after the amendments. web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/185/cssa.html
Each unit contains vivid color images done by Japanese artists for a popular audience, accompanied by detailed discussion of their historical background written by John Dower. web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/185/perdue.html
BRIAN LAMB, host: John W. Dower, author of "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II," wh--what did you feel like the moment they told you you won the National Book Award? www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1558&QueryTex...