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Charles Wheelan | |
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| Born | 1966 (age 58–59) |
| Occupation | author |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College (BA) Princeton University (MPA) University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Spouse | Leah Wheelan |
| Children | 3 |
Charles J. Wheelan (born 1966) is an American professor, journalist, speaker, and is the founder and co-chairman ofUnite America.[1] Wheelan is the author ofNaked Statistics,Naked Economics, andNaked Money. He was an unsuccessfulDemocratic candidate in thespecial election forIllinois's 5th congressional district, the seat vacated byRahm Emanuel.[2]
Wheelan graduated fromDartmouth College in 1988; he was a member ofAlpha Delta fraternity.[3] From 1997 to 2002, he was the Midwest correspondent forThe Economist. He has also written for theChicago Tribune,The New York Times,The Wall Street Journal andYahoo! Finance.[4]
Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College.
Wheelan is a regular contributor to theMotley Fool Radio Show onNational Public Radio and to theEight Forty-Eight program onWBEZ, Chicago Public Radio.
Wheelan's first book,Naked Economics (2002), is an introduction to economics for lay readers;Naked Statistics (2013) is an introduction to statistics.The Centrist Manifesto (2013) attempts to articulate a centrism that is more than a set of compromises between the political extremes, a perspective Wheelan elsewhere characterizes asradical centrist.
