Charles Wheelan

This article is about the American writer. For the British spin doctor, see Charlie Whelan.

Charles J. Wheelan (born 1966) is an American professor, journalist, speaker, and is the founder and co-chairman of Unite America.^[1] Wheelan is the author of Naked Statistics, Naked Economics, and Naked Money. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate in the special election for Illinois's 5th congressional district, the seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel.^[2]

Charles Wheelan
Born	1966 (age 57–58)
Occupation	author
Alma mater	Dartmouth College (BA) Princeton University (MPA) University of Chicago (PhD)
Spouse	Leah Wheelan
Children	Katrina, Sophia, and C.J. Wheelan

Journalist and author

Wheelan graduated from Dartmouth College in 1988; he was a member of Alpha Delta fraternity.^[3] From 1997 to 2002, he was the Midwest correspondent for The Economist. He has also written for the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Yahoo! Finance.^[4]

Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College.

Wheelan is a regular contributor to the Motley Fool Radio Show on National Public Radio and to the Eight Forty-Eight program on WBEZ, 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 as radical centrist.

Works

Books

• Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, W.W. Norton, 2002. ISBN 978-0-393-33764-8
• Revealing Chicago: An Aerial Portrait, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2005. ISBN 0-8109-5874-0
• Introduction to Public Policy, W.W. Norton, 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-92665-1
• 10 1/2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said, W. W. Norton, 2012. ISBN 978-0-393-07431-4
• The Centrist Manifesto, W.W. Norton, 2013. ISBN 978-0-393-34687-9
• Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, W.W. Norton, 2013. ISBN 978-0-393-07195-5
• Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters, W.W. Norton, 2016. ISBN 978-0-393-06902-0

References

1. "Charles Wheelan". Unite America. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
2. "Wheelan for Congress". Archived from the original on 2011-02-06. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
3. Dartmouth, Rockefeller Center – "Debating Income Inequality: What's the Problem? What's the Solution?", archived from the original on 2021-12-19, retrieved 2019-01-10
4. Wheelan, Charles (November 13, 2013). "America's Emerging Radical Center". The Centrist Project website. Accessed December 15, 2013.

External links

• Official website
• Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org