Charles Wheelan


Charles J. Wheelan is an American professor, journalist, speaker, and is the founder and co-chairman of Unite America. Wheelan is the author of Naked Statistics, Naked Economics, and Naked Money. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate in the Illinois's 5th [congressional district special election, 2009|special election] for Illinois's 5th congressional district, the seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel.

Journalist and author

Wheelan graduated from Dartmouth College in 1988; he was a member of Dartmouth College [Greek organizations#Alpha Delta|Alpha Delta] fraternity. 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.
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, is an introduction to economics for lay readers; Naked Statistics is an introduction to statistics. The Centrist Manifesto 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.

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