2000 | John Dower

Professor Emeritus, History

John Dower

“John Dower is an historian of the highest caliber who has rightly earned nearly every major prize for Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II,” said Philip S. Khoury, Professor of History. Embracing Defeat also received the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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