John W. Dower
John W. Dower | |
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| Born | June 21, 1938 Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author and historian |
| Language | English |
| Education | Amherst College Harvard University |
| Notable works | War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986) Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999) |
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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, 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.