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Dr. Joel L. Swerdlow is a Jewish American author, editor, journalist, researcher, and educator. His works include ''To Heal a Nation: The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial'', co-authored with Jan Scruggs, which became a 1988 NBC movie. His articles have been published in American newspapers and magazines, and international publications have translated his work into more than three dozen languages for international publication. For ten years, he worked as a Senior Writer and Assistant Editor of National Geographic Magazine, and was the lead writer for the Magazine's 1998–1999 Millennium series. ==Life and work== Swerdlow was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in areas including Burma (the Union of Myanmar) and France.〔(Wadsworth.com, Author Bio. ) Accessed February 1, 2011.〕 He received his undergraduate degree in political science (B.A., cum laude) from Syracuse University, and his M.A. in American Government and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1974.〔(National Geographic Online )〕 His doctoral dissertation examined voting behavior in presidential primary elections. It discussed the question: how representative of the general population are the views of people who vote in presidential primaries? Swerdlow has taught at Georgetown University〔(The Washington Center 2011 Academic Course Guide, pg. 11 ), retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 and Johns Hopkins University,〔 and currently teaches at the Washington, D.C. campus of the University of Texas (UT) as an Adjunct Professor.〔(Archer Center Academic bios )〕 His UT course is entitled "Politics, Power and Poetry" and the textbooks are Walt Whitman's ''Leaves of Grass'' and ''Readings to Accompany Walks Across Washington'' (2010).〔http://www.amazon.com/s?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=%22walks+across+washington%22&x=0&y=0〕 At Johns Hopkins, he taught two graduate seminars: (1) "Notions of Progress," which grew out of his observation that throughout recorded history complex societies have adopted and then abandoned a technology on three times; (2) History of Communications Technologies, which put the advent of the Internet in the context of its evolution from previous technologies, beginning with writing. He served as Faculty Director for the Special Academic Honors Seminar for The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars (2006).〔(www.honors.iastate.edu, page 6 ), retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 He was a senior writer and assistant editor for National Geographic Magazine, and its lead writer for the 1998–1999 Millennium series.〔 His articles have been included in two collections: ''Best of the Washington Post'',〔http://www.amazon.com/dp/0445043458〕 and ''From the Field: Writing From National Geographic Magazine''.〔 He was a National Magazine Awards finalist for his December 1994 story, "America's Poet: Walt Whitman,"〔 and he was cited again in 2000, for general excellence.〔 Additionally, his writing is included in books that present the "best of" articles from the Washington Post and National Geographic Magazine.〔 A Washington ''Post'' critic praised his work as taking ''National Geographic'' Magazine into exploration that is "biological, anthropological, spiritual." 〔Charles Trueheart, "The Slowly Evolving World of ''Geographic''," Washington ''Post'', August 20, 1991.〕 Swerdlow covered the White House and the Watergate conspiracy trial for National Public Radio (NPR).〔 Referred to as a "debate historian" in an article about current debates (such as one focusing on the performance of Sarah Palin),〔(Politico, October 1, 2008. )〕 he is quoted as saying that even “the Lincoln-Douglas encounters were popular mostly because they were excellent theater and not because what was said was particularly wise or revealing.”〔 He has written about and been interviewed about past political debates, especially Presidential debates,〔(C-SPAN Video Library, Presidential Candidates Debate )〕 and is a frequent commentator and panelist on television specials on a wide range of topics, including the April 10, 2000 C-SPAN program ''The Future of Exploration,''〔("The Future of Exploration" )〕 focusing on the goals of environmentalists, scientists, and explorers in the pursuit of "unraveling the mysteries" of our planet.〔 Before writing his doctoral dissertation, Swerdlow worked from the summer of 1971 to the fall of 1972 for the McGovern for President Committee; he joined the campaign as a field organizer when it had only $2500 in its campaign fund,〔(Van Dyk, Ted, "heroes, hacks, and fools: memoirs from the political arena, University of Washington Press, 2007 ), retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 with his efforts recounted in works such as Ted Van Dyk's "Heroes, Hacks and Fools: Memoirs from the political arena,"〔 and Hunter S. Thompson's ''Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.''〔(Thompson, Hunter S., "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72," Grand Central Publishing, 1985, pages 173-178. )〕 Swerdlow was the assistant producer and writer of the documentary ''The Gift of a Lifetime,''〔("The Gift of a Lifetime" )〕 on the subject of organ and tissue donation.〔 He served as the University of Wisconsin Science Writer in Residence during the Fall of 2004.〔(www.news.wisc.edu ), retrieved July 21, 2011.〕 His residency included the delivery of the public lecture, “The Rest are Left to Die: Health Care Rationing and the News Media.”〔 In addition to Swerdlow's work on the book and movie versions of ''To Heal a Nation: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial'', he was on the Cornell University committee that created the 1993 university memorial to Cornell graduates who died in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.〔(Cornell News: Memorial Honors Cornellians Who Served Their Country )〕 His research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Wallace Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Defense.〔 He has served as Guest Scholar at Smithsonian’s Woodrow Wilson Center,〔 where he studied how the news coverage of three instances in which the U.S. had to openly ration action to life-saving technologies: iron lungs from the 1920s-1940s; penicillin for civilians during World War II; and kidney dialysis in the 1960s and early 1970s. He was a Senior Fellow and Director of Programs and Publications at the Washington Annenberg Program of the University of Pennsylvania〔 and University of Southern California〔 and later Northwestern University;〔("The Atlantic," Vol 266, pg.4 ), retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 adviser to the President of the Museum of Television and Radio;〔 and consultant to the National Defense University;〔 ABC News;〔 United States Information Agency;〔 Corporation for Public Broadcasting;〔 U.S. Department of Commerce;〔 U.S. Information Agency;〔 National Endowment for the Humanities;〔 and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.〔 Swerdlow's medical and science writing began as a writer for ''U.S. News and World Report'' books, He contributed, for example, to ''Blood: The River of Life'',〔http://www.amazon.com/dp/0920269478〕 which was part of ''The Human Body'' series. He is coauthor of ''The Bug Stops Here: Force Protection and Emerging Infectious Diseases'', published by the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of National Defense University in Washington, D.C. For the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation he wrote "Special Reports" on rural infant care, at-risk adolescents, and other topics related to the provision of health care, such as the 1986 report, "Four-year effort cuts infant deaths in isolated rural counties by medical school-public health linkages."〔(Robert Wood Foundation Special Report:Four Year Effort Cuts Infant Deaths ), retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 His academic articles and presentations include "A New Approach to Combating Infectious diseases," and "Lessons from Malaria," which argues that "malaria offers important lessons in the relationship between plants and human disease because two of the three broad categories of drugs that modern medicine now uses to treat and prevent malaria come from plants." 〔Proceedings of the International Symposium on Medicinal and Nutraceutical Plants," A.K. Yadav, ed. International Society for Horticultural Science, 2007.〕 Swerdlow's essay, "Audience for the Arts in the Age of Electronics" analyzes how "growing intimacy with and dependency upon electronics" is changing virtually every form of artistic expression.〔''Engaging Art: The Next Great Transformation of America's Cultural Life''. Steven J. Tepper and Bill Ivey, eds. N.Y.: Routledge, 2008.〕 He has lectured at the Baylor College of Medicine,〔 Smithsonian Institution,〔 National Baseball Hall of Fame,〔 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,〔 as an adjunct professor at American University ,〔(wadsworth.com ), retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 Notre Dame University〔 and the International City Management Association.〔(The Washington Center Course Guide, Summer 2010. )〕 Topics have included: "1 Billion Cokes a Day: World Culture at the Millennium," "Everyone On Earth Could Fit Easily into Texas," Finding Geography in Surprising Places,""Why Do Some Plants Cure Cancer?," "Moving from Absurd to Obvious," and "The Rest are Left to Die: Health Care Rationing and the News Media." Swerdlow decided to become a writer in part because he believed that power in American society, specifically, the ability to have a positive impact, was increasingly moving from political and governmental institutions to the mass media.〔(Joel Swerdlow website. )〕 In an August 1999 article entitled, "The Power of Writing," in National Geographic magazine, he wrote that "No other invention-perhaps only the wheel comes close-has had a longer and greater impact.... Writing has an almost magical power: Words on paper, created by ordinary citizens, have overthrown governments and changed the course of history."〔 He was the first to introduce the word and the concept "Internet" to National Geographic readers; he also was the first to tell ''National Geographic'' readers about E Ink, the technology that has made e-readers possible. In Swerdlow's analysis entitled "Information Revolution" in the October 1995 issue of ''National Geographic'' he wrote of what he called "the growing cult-like faith in information." Swerdlow predicted that as we become more plugged it, what he called "Skin" time, that is, face-to-face contact with other people, would become more important.〔(Computers and Society, pages 16-24 ), retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 Swerdlow writes of the need to balance faith in technology with faith in ourselves, nothing that "What we hold most valuable--things like morality and compassion--can be found only within us," and that"while embracing the future, we can remain loyal to our unchanging humanity," saying that "we'll always need some skin."〔 Among his experiments as a writer include a "dual narrative" technique in which two voices take turns tell stories; these voices as be two different people (as in "Lullaby in Color")〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=National Geographic magazine: October 1997 @ nationalgeographic.com )〕 or the same person speaking from two different chronological points in his life (''Horizon Beyond)''.〔http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcover&vid=ISBN9812045449〕 His writing has been reprinted and used as required reading in undergraduate and graduate courses in fields ranging from political science and journalism to history and religion: for example, "War and Revolution in the Western World,"〔(anselm.edu:Course syllabus and requirements for "War and Revolution in the Western World" ), retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 and "Writing about society."〔(Course syllabus: "Writing About Society" ), retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 "To Heal a Nation" is frequently recommended in other works, such as Edward Linenthal's ''Sacred Ground: Americans and their Battlefields,'' which notes: "The sensitivity regarding martial monuments is perhaps best revealed in the celebrated controversies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. For a thorough introduction to this story, see Jan C. Scruggs and Joel L. Swerdlow, "To Heal a Nation: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial."〔(Linenthal, Edward, "Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields," University of Illinois Press, 1991, pg.7 ), retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 Swerdlow's internet blog, ''Larger Pie'', uses "economic growth" as a lens through which to examine what Swerdlow describes as "democracy, morality, fairness, the American Dream, and what life is all about," and shares information that will ultimately be included in a future book, "Growing the Pie."〔(largerpie.org ), retrieved July 20, 2011.〕 He wrote a web documentary cited as "Web Worthy" in 2005 by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.〔 Swerdlow is on the Board of the Global Initiative for Traditional Systems (GIFTS) of Health.〔(GIFTS of Health - History )〕 Swerdlow lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Marjorie L. Share. 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