The Centrist Manifesto by Charles Wheelan

It's really cool to be able to connect with you, and since then, you wrote two more books in that same vein, Naked Statistics and Naked Money, and we're going to talk a bit more about what you did with The Centrist Manifesto. I actually look back at my Amazon history and I bought that book back in 2004, so it was kind of reaching back into my past. Which, by the way, I'm from the south, and I was afraid of the way I say 'naked'. Ben: When I was going back and doing some more research after you and I started talking, your first big book, the Naked Economics. Thank you for coming on the show, Charles. Our guest today, I think, brings a new and interesting viewpoint to this. You've heard a couple podcast episodes that we've done in and around politics and the data in politics and what really makes it tick and how to think about it. Ben: Welcome everybody to another episode of the Masters of Data podcast, and I'm very excited about our guest today. He even has a new book coming out on May 21, The Rationing, which is a political thriller, which I'm excited to read. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling books Naked Economics, Naked Statistics, and Naked Money. Charles even ran for Congress as a Democratic candidate in Illinois in 2009, which heavily influenced his writing of The Centrist Manifesto, as we'll see.

He's a senior lecturer in economics at Dartmouth College. Charles Wheelan is the author of The Centrist Manifesto, which helped launch Unite America in 2013. Ben: In this episode, I have the honor to talk with a wildly successful author who has now spawned a political movement that is trying to bridge the partisan divide in the United States. The podcast brings the human to data, and I'm your host, Ben Newton. Ben: Welcome to the Masters of Data podcast.

The Centrist Manifesto by Charles Wheelan