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John W. Dower Biography
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Original air date: March 26, 2000

Awards won by John W. Dower

National Book Award Nonfiction Finalist, 2010, for Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq

Pulitzer Prize Winner in General Nonfiction, 2000, for Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

National Book Award Nonfiction Winner, 2000, for Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Bancroft Prize Winner, 2000, for Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Mark Lynton History Prize Winner, 2000, for Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

Academy Award Best Documentary Feature Nominee, 1988, for Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima

National Book Award Nonfiction Finalist, 1986, for War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War