{"product_id":"war-without-mercy-race-and-power-in-the-pacific-war-9780394751726","title":"War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD - AN AMERICAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST - A monumental history that has been hailed by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eas \"one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War--race--while writing what John Toland has called \"a landmark book ... a powerful, moving, and evenhanded history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers \"a lesson that the postwar generations need most ... with eloquence, crushing detail, and power.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOHN W. DOWER, born in 1938, is the Henry Luce Professor of International Cooperation and Global Stability at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Elements of Japanese Design\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of the Japanese State: Selected Writings of E. H. Norman\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Hiroshima Murals: The Art of Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pantheon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324047429906,"sku":"9780394751726","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_95395a09-4454-49d7-83ee-04924484f7ac.jpg?v=1727665170","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/war-without-mercy-race-and-power-in-the-pacific-war-9780394751726","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}