Harvey Wheeler
Writer, Author
1918 – 2004
Who was Harvey Wheeler?
John Harvey Wheeler 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" and "The Virtual Library".
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- Born
- Oct 17, 1918
Waco - Also known as
- John Harvey Wheeler
- Spouses
- Margaret Springer
- Norene Burleigh Wheeler
(1971 - 2004/09/06)
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Died
- Sep 6, 2004
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on July 23, 2013
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