The book won the Pulitzer because it was the first book in English to tell the history of the war in the Pacific from the Japanese point of view, rather than from an American perspective. Based on original and extensive interviews with high Japanese officials who survived the war, the book chronicles Imperial Japan from the military rebellion of February 1936 to the end of World War II. Perhaps his most important work, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971, is The Rising Sun. Ogg) has since come forth to publicly tell his story. Also, an anonymous source, known as "Seaman Z" (Robert D.
Since the original publication, Toland added new evidence and rebutted early critics. The book was widely criticized at the time. One exception to his general approach is his Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath about the Pearl Harbor attack and the investigations of it, in which he wrote about evidence that President Franklin Roosevelt knew in advance of plans to attack the naval base but remained silent. At one point he managed to publish an article on dirigibles in Look magazine it proved extremely popular and led to his career as a historian. In the summers between his college years, he travelled with hobos and wrote several plays with hobos as central characters, none of which achieved the stage.
This method may have stemmed from his original goal of becoming a playwright. Toland tried to write history as a straightforward narrative, with minimal analysis or judgment. He is best known for his biography of Adolf Hitler. John Willard Toland (Jin La Crosse, Wisconsin - Januin Danbury, Connecticut) was an American author and historian. Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
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