John W. Dower (born June 21, 1938 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American author and historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. 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. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association.
John W. Dower
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John W. Dower, ジョン・ダワー, 约翰·W·道尔, and 6 others
J. W. Dower, ジョン ダワー, John Dower, 존 다우어, ジョン・W ダワー, ジョンW. ダワー - Born:
- June 21, 1938
