


His other books include a selection of writings by E. He expanded his doctoral dissertation, a biography of former Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, into the book Empire and Aftermath. Career ĭower 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. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association. National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the John K.

His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. Dower (born June 21, 1938, in Providence, Rhode Island ) is an American author and historian. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986)Įmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999)
