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JOHN W. DOWER is professor emeritus of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His many books include War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War and Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War Two, which won numerous prizes including the Pulitzer and the National Book Award.
“[The Violent American Century] is so important, such
essential reading... There is much in it that I knew, and quite a
bit that I vaguely remembered, and some that I had never
assimilated, but to have all that information in one short text,
expertly woven and explained, is a devastating indictment of
American violence and its imperial hubris. The footnotes alone are
more than worth the price (which is very low, especially if we
compare it to a Tomahawk missile). It is really like a
mini-encyclopedia of American expansionism, but written with the
verve of a political thriller, and with the murderer being chased
and nailed down step by misstep....The Violent American Century has
a chance to affect at a massive level our understanding of the
world we live in, the one that America has shaped but has been
unable to dominate. At a time when the military has taken over the
national government -- not to mention the industrialists -- I am
grateful to have Dower’s fierce intelligence on our side. Let’s
hope it gets the readership it deserves”—Ariel Dorfman, New York
Times
"John Dower ends this grim recounting of 75 years of constant war,
intervention, assassination and other crimes by calling for
“serious consideration” of why the most powerful nation in world
history is so dedicated to these practices while ignoring the
nature of its actions and their consequences – an injunction that
could hardly be more timely or necessary as the Pentagon’s “arc of
instability” expands to an “ocean of instability” and even an
'atomic arc of instability' in Dower’s perceptive reflections on
today’s frightening world." —Noam Chomsky
“Dower delivers a convincing blow to publisher Henry Luce’s benign
“American Century” thesis, positing that violence has continued at
an epic pace through conventional combat and terrorism as well as
through famine, disease, and displacement of people from their
homelands. The U.S. often responds as victim rather than villain,
but Dower concludes that the country’s preoccupation with its own
exceptionalism continues to perpetuate the American hubris that
fuels ever more violent international conflicts.” —Publisher's
Weekly
“No historian understands the human cost of war, with its paranoia,
madness and violence, as does John Dower, and in this deeply
researched volume he tells how America, since the end of World War
II, has turned away from its ideals and goodness to become a match
setting the world on fire. George W. Bush's post-9/11 'global war
on terror' was not a new adventure, but just more of the
same.”—Seymour Hersh
In The Violent American Century, John Dower has produced a sharply
eloquent account of the use of U.S. military power since World War
II. From "hot" Cold War conflicts to drone strikes, Dower examines
the machinery of American violence and its staggering toll. This is
an indispensable book.—Marilyn Young, author of Vietnam Wars,
1945-1990
"John Dower is our most judicious guide to the dark underbelly of
post-War American power in the world. Those who focus on Europe and
North America speak of a Pax Americana. This is to ignore the
technologies of violence that Washington meticulously deployed in
Asia and the global South, from total war to "shock and awe," of
which Dower is our unflinching analyst."— Juan Cole, author of The
New Arabs
A lucid, convincing, and chilling account of the self-deceiving
American fall into violence. Dower’s clear-eyed analysis of a
terrible history, for its faith in the power of truth, invites a
fresh determination to demand another way. Just in time.—James
Carroll, author of An American Requiem
A timely, compact, and utterly compelling exposé of the myriad
contradictions besetting U.S. national security policy. John Dower
has written a powerful book.—Andrew J. Bacevich, author of
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
“If you think that because we’ve never experienced World War III
the world is becoming far more peaceful, John Dower’s book is
mandatory reading. In clear, carefully documented fashion, this
superb historian shows just how much violence the United States has
unleashed outside its borders since 1945, so much of it below the
radar of our awareness at the time—and of our memories today.”
—Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the
Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Praise for Embracing Defeat:
“Extraordinarily illuminating.... Dower has deftly mixed history
from the 'bottom up' and the 'top down' to produce what is surely
the most significant work to date on the postwar era in Japan.”
— Jacob Heilbrunn, Wall Street Journal
“Masterly.... A penetrating analysis of Japan in the aftermath of
defeat.... A profound and moving book, the best history ever
written of Japan and its relations to the United States after the
Second World War.”
— Akira Iriye, Harvard University, Boston Sunday Globe
“Richly detailed and provocative.... For anyone who knows modern
Japan, it is an endlessly fascinating explanation of why things
work as they do.... A marvelous piece of reporting and analysis.”—
T.R. Reid, Washington Post
“With Embracing Defeat, [Dower] confirms his place as this
country's leading chronicler of the Pacific war.” — Janice P.
Nimura, Chicago Tribune
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