John W. Dower

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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. In addition to authoring many books and articles about Japan and the United States in war and peace, he is a founder and codirector of the online “Visualizing Cultures” project established at MIT in 2002 and dedicated to the presentation of image-driven scholarship on East Asia in the modern world. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,047 ratings · 128 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II 4.06 avg rating — 616 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	My rating:
	War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War 4.02 avg rating — 325 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	The Elements of Japanese Design: Handbook of Family Crests, Heraldry, and Symbolism by John W. Dower, Kiyoshi Kawamoto (Illustrator) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1920 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Empire And Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru And The Japanese Experience, 1878 1954 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Japanese History and Culture from Ancient to Modern Times: Seven Basic Bibliographies by John W. Dower, Timothy S. George 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Hiroshima Murals: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki by John W. Dower, Muneshige Narazaki, John Junkerman 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1985	My rating:
	Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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