Person DS/UK/240 Burdick; Eugene (1918-1965); Political scientist and author Burdick Eugene 1918-1965 Political scientist and author

American Political Scientist and co-author of The Ugly American (1958), Fail-Safe (1962) and The 480 (1965). He was born in Sheldon, Iowa. His family moved to Los Angeles, California when he was aged 4. Burdick attended Stanford University and Oxford University where he earned a Ph.D. degree in psychology, and he worked at the department of Political Science at the University of California. In 1956 his critically acclaimed novel The Ninth Wave, a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship winner, was published. End 1950s he was among the first members of the Society for General Systems Research. He died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 46. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes Kstuckey 26/02/2009 Kstuckey 27/03/2009 a35a56ed-9b01-41fc-b5d1-5910c096c6a4