. - bob scully's world show is brought to you by fiera asset management. the power of thinking, optimal performance, intelligent innovation. and by klox technologies. lighting the way to a brighter future. ♪ - hi, this is bob scully, and welcome to another edition of the world show, our pulitzer laureates series. the experience of war, tragically, has been with mankind since its inception, and just as tragically, we can assume it'll be there as long as we're around. and history of wars, it is said, is written by the victors. but what about someone who decides to take as his central theme the life and times of the vanquished after a great war? this is the central theme of embracing defeat by john dower of mit, a historian who decided to study japan after 1945, after the terrible bombings in hiroshima, nagasaki, and the surrender by the emperor, hirohito - decided to study that so totally, so encyclopedically, bottom up and top down, that you really feel as if you're living through those years with the japanese. it is a story that bears reflection and revisi