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	'''Francis James Baird Wheen''' (born 22 January 1957) is a [[Marxist]] British journalist, author and broadcaster.		'''Francis James Baird Wheen''' (born 22 January 1957) is a [[Marxist]] British [[journalist]], author and broadcaster.

	==Early life and education==		==Early life and education==
	Wheen was born into an army family<ref name="Wroe">Nicholas Wroe [http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/aug/29/francis-wheen-life-in-writing "A life in writing",] ''The Guardian'', 29 August 2009</ref> and educated at two independent schools: Copthorne Preparatory School near Crawley, West Sussex, and [[Harrow School]] in north west London. He is an atheist.		Wheen was born into an army family<ref [[name]]="Wroe">Nicholas Wroe [http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/aug/29/francis-wheen-life-in-writing "A life in writing",] ''The Guardian'', 29 August 2009</ref> and educated at two independent schools: Copthorne Preparatory School near Crawley, West Sussex, and [[Harrow School]] in north west [[London]]. He is an [[atheist]].

	==Career==		==Career==
	Wheen is said to have "run away" from Harrow, a boarding school, at 16, "to join the alternative society". He had early periods as a general dogsbody at ''[[The Guardian]]'' and the ''[[New Statesman]]'', both Marxist publications, but somehow managed to gain admittance to Royal Holloway College, [[University of London]], after a period at a crammer.<ref name="Wroe"/>		Wheen is said to have "run away" from Harrow, a boarding school, at 16, "to join the alternative [[society]]". He had early periods as a general dogsbody at ''[[The Guardian]]'' and the ''[[New Statesman]]'', both Marxist publications, but somehow managed to gain admittance to Royal Holloway College, [[University of London]], after a period at a crammer.<ref name="Wroe"/>

	Wheen started his journalist's 'career' on ''Gay News''<ref>''The Revolutionary Conservative'' jounral, Issue no.5, Winter, 1994-5, p.4.</ref> and had a [[newspaper column\|column]] in ''[[The Guardian]]'' for several years where he regularly libelled, defamed and smeared conservatives and those on The Right. He also writes for ''[[Private Eye]]'' - in 1994 he was their columnist ''Grovel'' <ref>''The Revolutionary Conservative'' jounral, Issue no.5, Winter, 1994-5, p.4.</ref> - another smear-sheet, and has been sometime that magazine's deputy editor. He was once the Deputy Political Editor of ''The Independent'', another left-wing London newspaper and he has also been a regular journalist and columnist for the London ''Evening Standard''. His collected journalism, ''Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies'', won him the [[Orwell Prize]] in 2003.		Wheen started his journalist's 'career' on ''Gay News''<ref>''The Revolutionary Conservative'' jounral, Issue no.5, Winter, 1994-5, p.4.</ref> and had a [[newspaper column\|column]] in ''[[The Guardian]]'' for several years where he regularly libelled, defamed and smeared [[conservatives]] and those on The Right. He also writes for ''[[Private Eye]]'' - in 1994 he was their columnist ''Grovel'' <ref>''The Revolutionary Conservative'' jounral, Issue no.5, Winter, 1994-5, p.4.</ref> - another smear-sheet, and has been sometime that magazine's deputy editor. He was once the Deputy [[Political]] Editor of ''The Independent'', another [[left]]-wing London newspaper and he has also been a regular journalist and columnist for the London ''Evening Standard''. His collected [[journalism]], ''Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies'', won him the [[Orwell Prize]] in 2003.

	Wheen is the author of several books, including a much lauded (by The Left) biography of [[Karl Marx]]<ref>Paul Foot [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/1999/oct/09/politicalbooks.biography "Cheers, Mr Revolution"], ''The Guardian'', 9 October 1999</ref> which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1999,<ref>[http://www.deutscherprize.org.uk/Past%20Recipients.htm "Recipients of the Prize 1969 – 2010"], Deutscher Memorial Prize website</ref> and has been translated into twenty languages.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher_karl_marx.shtml \|title=Radio 4 – In Our Time – Greatest Philosopher – Karl Marx \|publisher=BBC \|date= \|accessdate=4 June 2014}}</ref> He followed the biography of Karl Marx with a "biography" of ''[[Das Kapital]]'', which follows the creation and publication of the first volume of Marx's major work as well as other incomplete volumes.		Wheen is the author of several books, including a much lauded (by The Left) biography of [[Karl Marx]]<ref>Paul Foot [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/1999/oct/09/politicalbooks.biography "Cheers, Mr Revolution"], ''The Guardian'', 9 October 1999</ref> which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1999,<ref>[http://www.deutscherprize.org.uk/Past%20Recipients.htm "Recipients of the Prize 1969 – 2010"], Deutscher Memorial Prize website</ref> and has been translated into twenty languages.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher_karl_marx.shtml \|title=Radio 4 – In Our Time – Greatest Philosopher – Karl Marx \|publisher=BBC \|date= \|accessdate=4 June 2014}}</ref> He followed the biography of [[Karl]] Marx with a "biography" of ''[[Das Kapital]]'', which follows the creation and publication of the first volume of Marx's major work as well as other incomplete volumes.
	In April 2012, Wheen suffered the loss of his entire book collection, his "life's work", and an unfinished novel, in a fire.<ref>Liam O'Brien [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/bonfire-of-the-first-editions-author-loses-lifes-work-in-garden-shed-fire-7646612.html "Bonfire of the first editions: author loses life's work in garden shed fire"], ''The Independent'', 16 April 2012</ref><ref>Julia Jones [http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/julia-jones/they-took-his-life-and-threw-it-on-skip "They Took His Life and Threw it on a Skip"], opendemocracy, 12 May 2012</ref>		In April 2012, Wheen suffered the loss of his entire book collection, his "life's work", and an unfinished novel, in a fire.<ref>Liam O'Brien [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/bonfire-of-the-first-editions-author-loses-lifes-work-in-garden-shed-fire-7646612.html "Bonfire of the first editions: author loses life's work in garden shed fire"], ''The Independent'', 16 April 2012</ref><ref>Julia Jones [http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/julia-jones/they-took-his-life-and-threw-it-on-skip "They Took His Life and Threw it on a Skip"], opendemocracy, 12 May 2012</ref>

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	==Political views==		==Political views==
	Wheen was, unsurprisingly, opposed to the [[Falklands War]]. In an article syndicated		Wheen was, unsurprisingly, opposed to the [[Falklands War]]. In an article syndicated
	to a number of American newspapers, Wheen stated: "In a famous British play of the 1950s, "[[Look Back in Anger]]", the hero complained that "there aren't any good, brave causes to fight for anymore". Mrs Thatcher apparently agrees with this view, so she went to war over a small, ignoble cause."<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19820619&id=kcMdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qWEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5402,1269414 "Falkland Victory is Tainted"], Francis Wheen. ''[[Pittsburgh Press\|The Pittsburgh Press]]'', 19 June 1982</ref> As with most unpatriotic Marxist scum, Wheen is a supporter of the group Republic, which seeks the abolition of the monarchy in the United Kingdom.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20090926121035/http://www.republic.org.uk/Who%20we%20are/Our%20Supporters%20Include/index.php "Our Supporters Include.."] Republic. Retrieved 22 March 2015. </ref>		to a number of [[American]] newspapers, Wheen stated: "In a famous British play of the 1950s, "[[Look Back in Anger]]", the hero complained that "there aren't any good, brave causes to fight for anymore". Mrs Thatcher apparently agrees with this view, so she went to war over a small, ignoble cause."<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19820619&id=kcMdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qWEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5402,1269414 "Falkland Victory is Tainted"], Francis Wheen. ''[[Pittsburgh Press\|The Pittsburgh Press]]'', 19 June 1982</ref> As with most unpatriotic Marxist scum, Wheen is a supporter of the group [[Republic]], which seeks the abolition of the [[monarchy]] in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20090926121035/http://www.republic.org.uk/Who%20we%20are/Our%20Supporters%20Include/index.php "Our Supporters Include.."] Republic. Retrieved 22 March 2015. </ref>

	Yet Wheen was an advocate of [[NATO]]'s [[Kosovo]] intervention against Serbian aggression in 1999; a signatory to the [[Euston Manifesto]] (issued in 2006) which called for a realignment of progressive politics;<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://eustonmanifesto.org/the-euston-manifesto/ \|title=The Euston Manifesto – The Euston Manifesto \|publisher=Eustonmanifesto.org \|date=11 September 2001 \|accessdate=18 April 2012}}</ref> and supported the second [[Iraq war]].<ref>"...columnists such as [[Nick Cohen]], Francis Wheen and [[Christopher Hitchens]], who argued for the overthrow of [[Saddam Hussein]] as an act of anti-fascist solidarity with the opposition activists and trade unionists of Iraq." [[Martin Bright]] [http://www.newstatesman.com/node/153049?quicktabs_most_read=1 "The Politics Column"], ''New Statesman'', 24 April 2006. Retrieved 8 March 2013.</ref>		Yet Wheen was an advocate of [[NATO]]'s [[Kosovo]] intervention against Serbian aggression in 1999; a signatory to the [[Euston Manifesto]] (issued in 2006) which called for a realignment of progressive [[politics]];<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://eustonmanifesto.org/the-euston-manifesto/ \|title=The Euston Manifesto – The Euston Manifesto \|publisher=Eustonmanifesto.org \|date=11 September 2001 \|accessdate=18 April 2012}}</ref> and supported the second [[Iraq war]].<ref>"...columnists such as [[Nick Cohen]], Francis Wheen and [[Christopher Hitchens]], who argued for the overthrow of [[Saddam Hussein]] as an act of anti-[[fascist]] solidarity with the opposition activists and trade unionists of Iraq." [[Martin Bright]] [http://www.newstatesman.com/node/153049?quicktabs_most_read=1 "The Politics Column"], ''New Statesman'', 24 April 2006. Retrieved 8 March 2013.</ref>

	Wheen interviewed [[Jonathan Bowden]] and Stuart Millson in 1994 regarding their group, the [[Revolutionary Conservative Caucus]] when, they said, he appeared obsessed with their traditional position on [[homosexuality]] "and pumped this for all it was worth."<ref>''The Revolutionary Conservative'' jounral, Issue no.5, Winter, 1994-5, p.3-4.</ref>		Wheen interviewed [[Jonathan Bowden]] and Stuart Millson in 1994 regarding their group, the [[Revolutionary Conservative Caucus]] when, they said, he appeared obsessed with their traditional position on [[homosexuality]] "and pumped this for all it was worth."<ref>''The Revolutionary Conservative'' jounral, Issue no.5, Winter, 1994-5, p.3-4.</ref>

	In late-2005, Wheen was the co-author with [[David Aaronovitch]] and the Marxist writer Oliver Kamm, both contributors to ''[[The Times]]'', of a complaint to ''[[The Guardian]]'' after it published an apology and correction in respect of an interview with [[Noam Chomsky]] by [[Emma Brockes]] which had been published at the end of October 2005;<ref>Brockes, Emma. "The Greatest Intellectual?", ''The Guardian'', 31 October 2005; the article has since been withdrawn from the ''Guardian''{{'}}s website, but remains available at ''[http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/20051031.htm chomsky.info]''.</ref> Chomsky had complained that the interview was defamatory in suggesting that he denied the 1995 [[Srebrenica massacre]] through his defence of a book by [[Diana Johnstone]].<ref>''The Guardian'' referred the matter to an external ombudsman who detailed his reasons for rejecting the three men's argument that the correction was itself wrong. See John Willis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1782133,00.html "External ombudsman report"], ''The Guardian'', 25 May 2006</ref>		In late-2005, Wheen was the co-author with [[David Aaronovitch]] and the Marxist writer Oliver Kamm, both contributors to ''[[The Times]]'', of a complaint to ''[[The Guardian]]'' after it published an apology and correction in respect of an interview with [[Noam Chomsky]] by [[Emma Brockes]] which had been published at the end of October 2005;<ref>Brockes, Emma. "The Greatest Intellectual?", ''The Guardian'', 31 October 2005; the article has since been withdrawn from the ''Guardian''{{'}}s website, but remains available at ''[http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/20051031.htm chomsky.info]''.</ref> Chomsky had complained that the interview was defamatory in suggesting that he denied the 1995 [[Srebrenica massacre]] through his defence of a book by [[Diana Johnstone]].<ref>''The Guardian'' referred the [[matter]] to an external ombudsman who detailed his reasons for rejecting the three men's argument that the correction was itself [[wrong]]. See John Willis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1782133,00.html "External ombudsman report"], ''The Guardian'', 25 May 2006</ref>

	==Personal life==		==Personal life==
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	==Partial bibliography==		==Partial bibliography==
	*''The Sixties'' (1982) ISBN 0-7126-0018-3		*''The Sixties'' (1982) ISBN 0-7126-0018-3
	*''Television: A History'' (1984) ISBN 0-7126-0929-6		*''Television: A [[History]]'' (1984) ISBN 0-7126-0929-6
	*''Battle for London'' (1985) ISBN 0-7453-0054-5		*''Battle for London'' (1985) ISBN 0-7453-0054-5
	*''[[Tom Driberg]]: His Life and Indiscretions'' (1990) ISBN 0-7011-3143-8		*''[[Tom Driberg]]: His Life and Indiscretions'' (1990) ISBN 0-7011-3143-8
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	*[http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/157236-1/Francis+Wheen.aspx ''Booknotes'' interview with Wheen on ''Karl Marx: A Life'', 25 June 2000.]		*[http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/157236-1/Francis+Wheen.aspx ''Booknotes'' interview with Wheen on ''Karl Marx: A Life'', 25 June 2000.]

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'''Francis James Baird Wheen''' (born 22 January 1957) is a [[Marxist]] British journalist, author and broadcaster.

==Early life and education==
Wheen was born into an army family<ref name="Wroe">Nicholas Wroe [http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/aug/29/francis-wheen-life-in-writing "A life in writing",] ''The Guardian'', 29 August 2009</ref> and educated at two independent schools: Copthorne Preparatory School near Crawley, West Sussex, and [[Harrow School]] in north west London. He is an atheist.

==Career==
Wheen is said to have "run away" from Harrow, a boarding school, at 16, "to join the alternative society". He had early periods as a general dogsbody at ''[[The Guardian]]'' and the ''[[New Statesman]]'', both Marxist publications, but somehow managed to gain admittance to Royal Holloway College, [[University of London]], after a period at a crammer.<ref name="Wroe"/>

Wheen started his journalist's 'career' on ''Gay News''<ref>''The Revolutionary Conservative'' jounral, Issue no.5, Winter, 1994-5, p.4.</ref> and had a [[newspaper column|column]] in ''[[The Guardian]]'' for several years where he regularly libelled, defamed and smeared conservatives and those on The Right. He also writes for ''[[Private Eye]]'' - in 1994 he was their columnist ''Grovel'' <ref>''The Revolutionary Conservative'' jounral, Issue no.5, Winter, 1994-5, p.4.</ref> - another smear-sheet, and has been sometime that magazine's deputy editor. He was once the Deputy Political Editor of ''The Independent'', another left-wing London newspaper and he has also been a regular journalist and columnist for the London ''Evening Standard''. His collected journalism, ''Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies'', won him the [[Orwell Prize]] in 2003.

Wheen is the author of several books, including a much lauded (by The Left) biography of [[Karl Marx]]<ref>Paul Foot [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/1999/oct/09/politicalbooks.biography "Cheers, Mr Revolution"], ''The Guardian'', 9 October 1999</ref> which won the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 1999,<ref>[http://www.deutscherprize.org.uk/Past%20Recipients.htm "Recipients of the Prize 1969 – 2010"], Deutscher Memorial Prize website</ref> and has been translated into twenty languages.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/greatest_philosopher_karl_marx.shtml |title=Radio 4 – In Our Time – Greatest Philosopher – Karl Marx |publisher=BBC |date= |accessdate=4 June 2014}}</ref> He followed the biography of Karl Marx with a "biography" of ''[[Das Kapital]]'', which follows the creation and publication of the first volume of Marx's major work as well as other incomplete volumes.
In April 2012, Wheen suffered the loss of his entire book collection, his "life's work", and an unfinished novel, in a fire.<ref>Liam O'Brien [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/bonfire-of-the-first-editions-author-loses-lifes-work-in-garden-shed-fire-7646612.html "Bonfire of the first editions: author loses life's work in garden shed fire"], ''The Independent'', 16 April 2012</ref><ref>Julia Jones [http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/julia-jones/they-took-his-life-and-threw-it-on-skip "They Took His Life and Threw it on a Skip"], opendemocracy, 12 May 2012</ref>

===Broadcasting work===
Wheen is naturally a [[BBC]] luvvie, being a star of The Left. He is frequently on BBC Radio 4, and is a regular panellist on the BBC's ''The News Quiz''. He is also a regular on the BBC's ''[[Have I Got News for You]]''.<ref>[[Have I Got News for You#Guest appearance tallies]]</ref>

Like most on the hard Left Wheen is a serial smearer. He wrote a so-called 'docudrama', ''The Lavender List'', for BBC Four on the final period of [[Harold Wilson]]'s premiership, concentrating on smearing his character over his relationship with his secretary and personal assistant Marcia Matilda Falkender, who was later given a Life Peerage as Baroness Falkender. This was first screened in March 2006. In April 2007, the BBC paid £75,000 to Baroness Falkender in an out-of-court settlement over claims made in the programme.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/apr/04/bbc.broadcasting "BBC pays out over Wilson drama"], ''The Guardian'' website, 4 April 2007.</ref>

==Political views==
Wheen was, unsurprisingly, opposed to the [[Falklands War]]. In an article syndicated
to a number of American newspapers, Wheen stated: "In a famous British play of the 1950s, "[[Look Back in Anger]]", the hero complained that "there aren't any good, brave causes to fight for anymore". Mrs Thatcher apparently agrees with this view, so she went to war over a small, ignoble cause."<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19820619&id=kcMdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qWEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5402,1269414 "Falkland Victory is Tainted"], Francis Wheen. ''[[Pittsburgh Press|The Pittsburgh Press]]'', 19 June 1982</ref> As with most unpatriotic Marxist scum, Wheen is a supporter of the group Republic, which seeks the abolition of the monarchy in the United Kingdom.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20090926121035/http://www.republic.org.uk/Who%20we%20are/Our%20Supporters%20Include/index.php "Our Supporters Include.."] Republic. Retrieved 22 March 2015. </ref>

Yet Wheen was an advocate of [[NATO]]'s [[Kosovo]] intervention against Serbian aggression in 1999; a signatory to the [[Euston Manifesto]] (issued in 2006) which called for a realignment of progressive politics;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eustonmanifesto.org/the-euston-manifesto/ |title=The Euston Manifesto – The Euston Manifesto |publisher=Eustonmanifesto.org |date=11 September 2001 |accessdate=18 April 2012}}</ref> and supported the second [[Iraq war]].<ref>"...columnists such as [[Nick Cohen]], Francis Wheen and [[Christopher Hitchens]], who argued for the overthrow of [[Saddam Hussein]] as an act of anti-fascist solidarity with the opposition activists and trade unionists of Iraq." [[Martin Bright]] [http://www.newstatesman.com/node/153049?quicktabs_most_read=1 "The Politics Column"], ''New Statesman'', 24 April 2006. Retrieved 8 March 2013.</ref>

Wheen interviewed [[Jonathan Bowden]] and Stuart Millson in 1994 regarding their group, the [[Revolutionary Conservative Caucus]] when, they said, he appeared obsessed with their traditional position on [[homosexuality]] "and pumped this for all it was worth."<ref>''The Revolutionary Conservative'' jounral, Issue no.5, Winter, 1994-5, p.3-4.</ref>

In late-2005, Wheen was the co-author with [[David Aaronovitch]] and the Marxist writer Oliver Kamm, both contributors to ''[[The Times]]'', of a complaint to ''[[The Guardian]]'' after it published an apology and correction in respect of an interview with [[Noam Chomsky]] by [[Emma Brockes]] which had been published at the end of October 2005;<ref>Brockes, Emma. "The Greatest Intellectual?", ''The Guardian'', 31 October 2005; the article has since been withdrawn from the ''Guardian''{{'}}s website, but remains available at ''[http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/20051031.htm chomsky.info]''.</ref> Chomsky had complained that the interview was defamatory in suggesting that he denied the 1995 [[Srebrenica massacre]] through his defence of a book by [[Diana Johnstone]].<ref>''The Guardian'' referred the matter to an external ombudsman who detailed his reasons for rejecting the three men's argument that the correction was itself wrong. See John Willis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/readerseditor/story/0,,1782133,00.html "External ombudsman report"], ''The Guardian'', 25 May 2006</ref>

==Personal life==
Wheen was married to Joan Smith between 1985 and 1993. He now lives with Julia Jones (formerly Julia Thorogood) and they have two bastard sons.

In 2014, Wheen declared that he was a victim of teacher Charles Napier who was convicted of sexually abusing 23 boys between 1967 and 1983. Wheen described his experience as less serious than that of other victims.<ref name="BBC-30591158">{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30591158|title=Charles Napier jailed for 13 years for child sex abuse|date=23 December 2014|work=[[BBC Online]]|accessdate=24 December 2014}}</ref>

Wheen was a close friend of the far-left writer [[Christopher Hitchens]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/8961815/Christopher-Hitchens-a-sober-perception-however-much-he-drank.html |first=Francis| last=Wheen|title=Christopher Hitchens: a sober perception, however much he drank |publisher=Telegraph |date= 17 December 2011|accessdate= 18 April 2012}}</ref>

==Partial bibliography==
*''The Sixties'' (1982) ISBN 0-7126-0018-3
*''Television: A History'' (1984) ISBN 0-7126-0929-6
*''Battle for London'' (1985) ISBN 0-7453-0054-5
*''[[Tom Driberg]]: His Life and Indiscretions'' (1990) ISBN 0-7011-3143-8
*''The Chatto Book of Cats (Chatto Anthologies)'' Francis Wheen, editor, John O'Connor, illustrator (1993) ISBN 0-7011-4005-4
*''Lord Gnome's Literary Companion'' (1994) ISBN 1-85984-945-8
*''Karl Marx'' (1999) ISBN 1-85702-637-3
*''Who Was [[Karoly Hajdu|Dr. Charlotte Bach]]?'' (2002) ISBN 1-904095-39-9
*''Hoo-hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism, 1991–2001'' (2002) ISBN 1-903809-42-8 (mainly consisting of columns written for ''The Guardian'')
*''The Irresistible Con: The Bizarre Life of a Fraudulent Genius'' (2004) ISBN 1-904095-74-7
*''Shooting Out the Lights'' (2004) ISBN 0-00-714943-3
*''[[How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World]]'' (2004) ISBN 0-00-714096-7; in the USA and Canada: ''Idiot Proof: A Short History of Modern Delusions'' (2004) ISBN 1-58648-247-5
*''Marx's [[Das Kapital]]: A Biography'' (2006) ISBN 978-1-84354-400-5
*''Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia'' (2009) ISBN 978-0-00-724427-0

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,656380,00.html Extract from Hoo-Hahs and Passing Frenzies: Collected Journalism]
*[http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/157236-1/Francis+Wheen.aspx ''Booknotes'' interview with Wheen on ''Karl Marx: A Life'', 25 June 2000.]

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