Awards

• Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (History) 2010
• Commended for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2010
• Runner-up for Literary Award (Nonfiction) 2011

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Among Dower's gifts is a striking ability to embed provocative conclusions within such rich analysis that they cannot be dismissed as outrageous. -- Michael Sherry - American Scholar Starred Review. An unrelenting, incisive, masterly comparative study. -- Kirkus Reviews

Dower's Cultures of War is a thought-provoking, scholarly and deeply polemical book... David Pilling, Financial Times

Dower exposes the dubious nature of any nation's or movement's claim to moral purity or clear conscience in an era when 'modern war remains largely wholesale killing.' -- ,Anna Mundow Starred Review. An unrelenting, incisive, masterly comparative study. Among Dower's gifts is a striking ability to embed provocative conclusions within such rich analysis that they cannot be dismissed as outrageous. -- Michael Sherry

Starred Review. An unrelenting, incisive, masterly comparative study. -- Kirkus Reviews Among Dower's gifts is a striking ability to embed provocative conclusions within such rich analysis that they cannot be dismissed as outrageous. -- Michael Sherry - American Scholar

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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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