Awards and Praise for John Dower’s Embracing Defeat:
• Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize
• Winner of the 1999 National Book Award
• Winner of the 2000 Bancroft Prize
[A] superb history of Japan’s occupation. . . . Dower brilliantly captures the louche, squalid, but extraordinary dynamic mood of the postwar years.
—The New York Review of Books
Beautifully written and exactingly researched, [Embracing Defeat] is an outstanding example of narrative history.
—National Book Award citation
Magisterial. . . . [A] richly nuanced book.
—The New York Times Book Review
• Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize
• Winner of the 1999 National Book Award
• Winner of the 2000 Bancroft Prize
[A] superb history of Japan’s occupation. . . . Dower brilliantly captures the louche, squalid, but extraordinary dynamic mood of the postwar years.
—The New York Review of Books
Beautifully written and exactingly researched, [Embracing Defeat] is an outstanding example of narrative history.
—National Book Award citation
Magisterial. . . . [A] richly nuanced book.
—The New York Times Book Review
Cultures of War
Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
hardcover
$29.95
Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning historian John Dower returns with a groundbreaking comparison of the four definitive acts of violence in our time
Without question, Dower is America’s foremost historian of the Second World War in the Pacific.
—Stephen E. Ambrose
—Stephen E. Ambrose
Immediately after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the U.S. media proclaimed September 11 a “day of infamy” comparable to Pearl Harbor. Cultures of War takes this analogy as a point of departure for a vivid comparative analysis of the war with Japan, the war on terror, and the war with Iraq.
This pathbreaking inquiry addresses institutional failures of intelligence and imagination, the “strategic imbecility” of Japan’s and America’s wars of choice in 1941 and 2003, terror bombing and the targeting of civilians since World War II, “Ground Zero 1945” and “Ground Zero 2001,” and the driving forces behind pan-Asian and pan-Islam movements.
As only the author of the definitive Embracing Defeat could do, John Dower looks at the occupations in Japan and Iraq, contrasting the incredibly thorough American preparations in the Pacific War with the totally haphazard and ideologically driven policies in the war in Iraq.
One of the most daring and important books of this decade, Cultures of War is a conceptual breakthrough that is bound to change the way we look at American policies past and present.
John Dower is Professor Emeritus of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His interests lie in modern Japanese history and U.S.-Japan relations. He is the author of several books including War Without Mercy and Embracing Defeat, which was the recipient of numerous honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History, and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Prize. He lives in Boston.
This pathbreaking inquiry addresses institutional failures of intelligence and imagination, the “strategic imbecility” of Japan’s and America’s wars of choice in 1941 and 2003, terror bombing and the targeting of civilians since World War II, “Ground Zero 1945” and “Ground Zero 2001,” and the driving forces behind pan-Asian and pan-Islam movements.
As only the author of the definitive Embracing Defeat could do, John Dower looks at the occupations in Japan and Iraq, contrasting the incredibly thorough American preparations in the Pacific War with the totally haphazard and ideologically driven policies in the war in Iraq.
One of the most daring and important books of this decade, Cultures of War is a conceptual breakthrough that is bound to change the way we look at American policies past and present.
John Dower is Professor Emeritus of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His interests lie in modern Japanese history and U.S.-Japan relations. He is the author of several books including War Without Mercy and Embracing Defeat, which was the recipient of numerous honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History, and the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Prize. He lives in Boston.
Fall 2010
hardcover
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 576 pages
978-0-39306-150-5
hardcover
6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 576 pages
978-0-39306-150-5
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