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• Short-listed for National Book Award 2010
• Shortlisted for National Book Critics Circle Awards: Nonfiction 2010.

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A profoundly sobering reflection on war and the many cultures of self-delusion that we, like all other mortal nations, continue to ignore at ever deepening peril.--Gar Alperovitz, author of The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb

Starred Review. An unrelenting, incisive, masterly comparative study. -- Kirkus Reviews Consistently perceptive. -- Washington Post A whopper of a book in both length and intellectual substance. . . . The chapters on the U.S. incendiary and atomic bombing of Japan and the start of the nuclear arms race could stand alone as the wisest current treatment of that vexed history. -- Michael Sherry - American Scholar A profoundly sobering reflection on war and the many cultures of self-delusion that we, like all other mortal nations, continue to ignore at ever deepening peril. -- Gar Alperovitz, author of The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb Dower has found much new and revelatory to tell us about the inanities and horrors of the Bush/Cheney years, and this book goes much deeper-and raises devastating questions about the history we think we know. -- Seymour M. Hersch, author of Chain of Command

Dower has found much new and revelatory to tell us about the inanities and horrors of the Bush/Cheney years, and this book goes much deeper-and raises devastating questions about the history we think we know. -- Seymour M. Hersch, author of Chain of Command A profoundly sobering reflection on war and the many cultures of self-delusion that we, like all other mortal nations, continue to ignore at ever deepening peril. -- Gar Alperovitz, author of The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb A whopper of a book in both length and intellectual substance. . . . The chapters on the U.S. incendiary and atomic bombing of Japan and the start of the nuclear arms race could stand alone as the wisest current treatment of that vexed history. -- Michael Sherry - American Scholar Consistently perceptive. -- Washington Post Starred Review. An unrelenting, incisive, masterly comparative study. -- Kirkus Reviews

Cultures of War distills a lifetime of reflection and scholarship, persuasively connecting aspects of the 'War of Terror' to Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, the better to illuminate the kind of wishful thinking-regardless of cultural difference-that is characteristic of modern warfare. National Book Award citation Dower's Cultures of War is a thought-provoking, scholarly and deeply polemical book... David Pilling, Financial Times ...a sobering analysis, one that defines the contours of the fast unfolding post-American world. Literary Review Consistently perceptive. The Washington Post Cultures of War must be read by anyone interested in uncovering the intellectual and historical roots of the War on Terror. Military Times The issues raised in this well-written study are important. The Tablet

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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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