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Charles Wohlforth

Charles Wohlforth

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Charles P. Wohlforth (born 1963) is an author and journalist, former public official, and consultant.[1] He has written extensively about Alaska and has collaborated with other authors on a variety of topics.[2]

Wohlforth's books include The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change, which won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, in the Science and Technology category, in 2004,[3] and more than 10 other books about science, environment, medicine, history, biography, and travel. His column in the Anchorage Daily News won the "Best of the West" award in 2019.[4] Wohlforth served two terms on the Anchorage Assembly[5][6] and led the Coalition for Education Equity as executive director for five years.[7] He was a consultant on energy and transportation issues on the state and national level.[7] He was host of several radio, podcast and TV programs on Alaska Public Media.[8] He graduated from Princeton University with high honors in 1986.[7]

Partial bibliography

  • How Covid Crashed the System: A Guide to Fixing American Health Care (By David B. Nash and Charles Wohlforth; Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)[9]
  • Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets] (By Charles Wohlforth and Amanda Hendrix; Pantheon/Knopf, 2016).[10]
  • From the Shores of Ship Creek: Stories of Anchorage’s First 100 Years (Todd Communications, 2015).[11]
  • To Russia With Love: An Alaskan’s Journey (By Vic Fischer with Charles Wohlforth; University of Alaska Press, 2012).[12]
  • The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010).[13]
  • Saving for the Future: My Life and the Permanent Fund (By Dave Rose as told to Charles Wohlforth; Epicenter Press, 2008).[14]
  • The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004).[15]
  • Frommer's Alaska (Wiley, 1996–2011). Fourteen editions
  • Alaska For Dummies (Wiley, 2003–2011). Five editions
  • Frommer's Family Vacations in the National Parks (Wiley, 1999–2004). Three editions
  • Crisis in the Commons: The Alaska Solution (By Walter J. Hickel; Institute for Contemporary Studies, 2002).
  • Spectacular Alaska (Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1998; revised edition, Universe, 2012).

References

  1. [1]
    "About Author". Charles Wohlforth. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Books by Charles Wohlforth". Charles Wohlforth. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  3. [3]
    2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winners
  4. [4]
    "2019 results of the Best of the West journalism contest |". Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  5. [5]
    "Municipality of Anchorage".
  6. [6]
    "List of past members of the Anchorage Assembly" (PDF).
  7. [7]
    "Charles Wohlforth CV" (PDF).
  8. [8]
    "Charles Wohlforth". Alaska Public Media. Retrieved October 24, 2019.
  9. [9]
    How Covid Crashed the System: A Guide to Fixing American Health Care.
  10. [10]
    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/239536/beyond-earth-by-charles-wohlforth-and-amanda-r-hendrix-phd/9780804172424/
  11. [11]
    Wohlforth, Charles (2014). From the Shores of Ship Creek: Stories of Anchorage's First 100 Years. ISBN 978-1578336036.
  12. [12]
    https://www.alaska.edu/uapress/browse/detail/index.xml?id=462
  13. [13]
    http://fateofnature.com/
  14. [14]
    http://www.epicenterpress.com/Home/Book/90
  15. [15]
    http://www.wohlforth.net/


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