James Dawes discusses "Evil Men." He will be joined by photographer Wing Young Huie.

A searching meditation on our all-too-human capacity for inhumanity, Evil Men confronts atrocity head-on--how it looks and feels, what motivates it, how it can be stopped.



Drawing
on firsthand interviews with convicted war criminals from the Second
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), James Dawes leads us into the frightening
territory where soldiers perpetrated some of the worst crimes
imaginable: murder, torture, rape, medical experimentation on living
subjects. Transcending conventional reporting and commentary, Dawes’s
narrative weaves together unforgettable segments from the interviews
with consideration of the troubling issues they raise. Telling the
personal story of his journey to Japan, Dawes also lays bare the
cultural misunderstandings and ethical compromises that at times called
the legitimacy of his entire project into question. For this book is not
just about the things war criminals do. It is about what it is like,
and what it means, to befriend them.



James
Dawes will be joined by noted Minnesota photographer Wing Young Huie.
Like Dawes’ own work, Wing Young Huie’s process begins with interviews
to produce photographs of startling candor and impact. Learn more at
www.wingyounghuie.com.



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James Dawes is Professor of English and Director of the Program in Human Rights and Humanitarianism at Macalester College.