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Author:	Eugene Burdick
Co-authors:	Harvey Wheeler
Title:	Fail-Safe
Publisher:	Dell
Country:	USA
Date:	Aug 1963
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	813.54
Genre:	Fiction, Thriller
Cat#:	2459
Total Editions:	3
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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First paperback edition. 288 pages.

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ppint. 25th Mar 2023		hiding a known author's name behind ''various authors'' on bookcat does *not* promote their co-author's name to equal importance; the co-author's listing remains in ''appearances'': the lead author appears to be chosen either by the contributor, randomly, or - possibly - by an alphabetical order sorting (?on surname? - ?on full name accorded starting with first name?) - - this is not by any means as good as giving them equal weighting, and having their collaborations appear in both authors' primary listings -- but this latter would take the writing of some code, its testing, sorting out any bijoux bugglets that appeared - and take up valuable time of the divine o.c. (if s/he exists).



ppint. 25th Mar 2023		eugene burdick was an author with a track record in writing novels, generally with a strong political theme, and often near-future set: not always borderline sf, but quite liable to be so. harvey wheeler was a ''political scientist'' - people are debating whether political science exists still, half a century on - and a scholar with a track record of publications within his field, but none in fiction or political fiction outside of his two collaborations with eugene burdick. another collaborator on two politically-themed novels with eugene burdick was william lederer, who was primarily a military officer in the u.s. navy (1930-1946 i believe), after serving as a line officer becoming a public information officer and political adviser to the commander-in-chief pacific, admiral felix stump. aside of his collaborations, he wrote lighthearted and humorous novels, and children's novels, and non-fiction reporting on and analysing merkin political failures in south-west asia, and suggesting ways, methods, strategies and political tactics that he developed with eugene burdick that they considered much more liable to be successful, than the application of pure military force. their arguments led in at least some part to the establishment of the peace corps in 1951 by president john f. kennedy. - given the above, i think it is perfectly reasonable to acknowledge these two as collaborators with the primary career adult political fiction author, eugene burdick.



23skidoo 8th Mar 2023		Even more correctly, author should be entered as "Various Authors" with Burdick and Wheeler sharing top-line credit (not with "and", though, I agree) since they appear to share equal writer billing (as opposed to one having written material for the other, as one might get with a ghostwriter.) (this comment is from another edition of this book)



ppint. 23rd May 2019		author is^W was wrong and should^W has been corrected by '' and harvey wheeler'' being removed to co-author field. they were two separate people, not a conjoined pair of twins. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Eugene Burdick - Fail-Safe - Pan - Paperback - UK (1965)

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Eugene Burdick - Fail-Safe - Dell - Paperback - USA - 044012459X (1979)