John dower biography
John W. Dower is an American author and historian....
John W. Dower
American historian (born 1938)
John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938, in Providence, Rhode Island[1]) is an American author and historian.
John Dower, emeritus professor of Japanese history, retired from the History faculty in but remains active in MIT's online “Visualizing Cultures” project.
His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction,[2] the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction,[3] the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize,[4] and the John K.
Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association.[5]
Career
Dower earned a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Amherst College in 1959, and a PhD in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1972, where he studied under Albert M.
Craig. He expanded his doctoral dissertation, a biography of former Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, into the book Empire and Aftermath. His other books include a selection of writings by E. Herbert Norman and a study of mutual images during Wor