Harvey Wheeler

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John Harvey Wheeler (October 17, 1918 - September 6, 2004) was an American author, political scientist, and scholar. He was best known as co-author with Eugene Burdick of Fail-Safe, 1962, an early cold war novel that depicted what could easily go wrong in an age on the verge of nuclear war. The novel was made into a movie, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, in 1964. In later years, Wheeler was a founding editor of the Journal of Social and Biological Structures, 1982, and an early advocate of online education and the Internet as a democratizing tool. He taught a course in "OnLine Publishing" for Connected Education in the mid-to-late 1980s.

Wheeler attended Subiaco Academy, earned his bachelor's and master's degree from Indiana University, and his PhD from Harvard University. He taught at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University; became full professor of political science at Washington and Lee University, where he wrote "Fail-safe". In 1960 he became longtime fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif. While at CSDI he wrote, edited or contributed to a dozen books, including "Democracy in a Revolutionary Era" (1968) and "The Virtual Library" (1987).

He was an authority on Francis Bacon (1561–1626).

Children: David C. Wheeler, John Harvey Wheeler III, Mark Wheeler.

Books

Lattimore the Scholar, (1953), co-author with George Boas; Baltimore.
The Conservative Crisis, (1956), Public Affairs Press, Washington.
Fail-Safe, (1962) Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler, McGraw Hill; Re-published, 1999, by Ecco Press, now part of Harper-Collins.
Democracy in a Revolutionary Era, (1968) Harvey Wheeler, Encyclopædia Britannica Bicentennial Perspectives; Published separately by Praeger. New York.
Democracy in a Revolutionary Era, (1970) Praeger, New York.
Beyond the Punitive Society, (1973) editor and contributor, W.H. Freeman, San Francisco.
The Structure of Human Reflexion, (1990) Ed and contributor, Peter Lang, New York.

Filmography

Fail-Safe 1964
Fail Safe 2000

External links

Harvey Wheeler at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Wheeler, Harvey
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Short description	American writer and scholar
Date of birth	October 17, 1918
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Date of death	2004
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