[{"onix":{"CollateralDetail":{"TextContent":[{"TextType":"04","ContentAudience":"00","Text":"Part I. \"Pearl Harbor\" as code: wars of choice and failures of intelligence. 1. Infamy and the cracked mirror of history : \"Pearl Harbor\" as code ; The boomerang of \"Pearl Harbor\" -- 2. The failure of intelligence : Prelude to Pearl Harbor ; Prelude to 9-11 ; Postmortems: Pearl Harbor ; Postmortems: 9-11 -- 3. The failure of imagination : \"Little yellow sons-of-bitches\" ; Rationality, desperation, and risk ; Aiding and abetting the enemy ; \"This little terrorist in Afghanistan\" -- 4. Innocence, evil, and amnesia : Catastrophe and the transfer of innocence ; Evil and the transfer of evil ; Amnesia and Frankenstein's monster ; Evil where the price is worth it -- 5. Wars of choice and strategic imbecilities : Pearl Harbor and \"Operation Iraqi Freedom\" ; The emperor system and imperial presidency ; Choosing war ; Strategic imbecilities ; Deception and delusion ; Victory disease and the gates of hell -- \"Pearl Harbor\" as godsend ---- Part II. Ground Zero 1945 and Ground Zero 2001: terror and mass destruction. 7. \"Hiroshima\" as code -- 8. Air war and terror bombing in World War II : Ghost cities ; Extirpating \"noncombatants\" ; \"Increasing the terror\" in Germany ; Targeting Japan ; Firebombing the great cities ; \"Burn jobs\" and \"secondary targets\" ; Morale, shock, and psychological warfare -- 9. \"The most terrible bomb in the history of the world\" : Ground zeroes ; Anticipating zero ; Becoming death ; Ending the war and saving American lives -- 10. The irresistible logic of mass destruction : Brute force ; August 1945 and the rejected alternatives ; Unconditional surrender ; Power politics and the Cold War ; Partisan politics\n-- 11. Sweetness, beauty, and idealistic annihilation : Scientific sweetness and technological imperatives ; Technocratic momentum and the war machine ; The aesthetics of mass destruction ; Revenge ; Idealistic annihilation -- 12. New evils in the world: 1945\/2001 : Evil beyond recall ; Arrogating God ; Holy war against the west: seisen and jihad\nGround zeroes: state and nonstate terror ; Managing savagery ---- Part III. Wars and occupations: winning the peace, losing the peace. 13. Occupied Japan and occupied Iraq : Winning the war, losing the peace ; Occupied Japan and the eye of the beholder ; Incommensurable worlds ; Planning postwar Japan ; Eyes wide shut: occupying Iraq ; Repudiating nation building ; Baghdad burning -- 14. Convergence of a sort: law, justice, and transgression : Jiggering the law ; Legal and illegal occupation ; War crimes and the ricochet of victor's justice ; Spheres of influence and the limbo of defeated armies ; Dissipating intangible assets -- 15. Nation building and market fundamentalism : Controls and capitalisms ; Corruption and crime ; Successful and disastrous demilitarization ; \"Generalists\" versus \"area experts\" ; Privatizing nation building ; Rendering Iraq \"open for business\" ; Aid in two eras ; Combating carpetbagging in an earlier time ; Mixed legacies in an age of forgetting -- Epilogue: Fools' errands and fools' gold : Secular priesthoods and faith-based policies ; Fools' errands ; Fools' gold"}]},"RecordReference":"9780393061505","NotificationType":"03","ProductIdentifier":{"ProductIDType":"15","IDValue":"9780393061505"},"DescriptiveDetail":{"TitleDetail":{"TitleType":"01","TitleElement":{"TitleElementLevel":"01","TitleText":{"collationkey":"","content":"Cultures of war : Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq \/ John W. Dower"}}},"Contributor":[{"SequenceNumber":"1","ContributorRole":[],"PersonName":{"content":"Dower, John W, 1938-","collationkey":""}}]},"PublishingDetail":{"Imprint":{"ImprintName":"New Press"},"PublishingDate":[]}},"hanmoto":{"datecreated":"2016-05-24 22:19:13","dateshuppan":"c2010-01","datemodified":"2016-05-24 22:19:13"},"summary":{"isbn":"9780393061505","title":"Cultures of war : Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq \/ John W. Dower","volume":"","series":"","publisher":"New Press","pubdate":"c2010-01","cover":"","author":"Dower,JohnW,1938-"}}]