Harvey Wheeler

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, Encyclopaedia 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

*" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058083/ Fail-Safe 1964]
*" [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235376/ Fail Safe 2000]

External links

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