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Charles Peters (born 1926) is an American journalist, editor, and author. Founder and former editor-in-chief of ''The Washington Monthly'' magazine, he is currently the president of Understanding Government. Peters was born in Charleston, West Virginia in 1926. He attended local public schools, graduating from Charleston High School in 1944. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1944. After his discharge in 1946, he attended Columbia College in New York, receiving his B.A. in 1949 and his MA from the university in 1951. He attended the University of Virginia Law School, receiving his J.D. in 1957. From 1957-1961, he practiced law in West Virginia, and managed John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign in Kanawha County. In 1961 and 1962 he served in West Virginia House of Delegates. He was director of evaluation for the Peace Corps from 1962-1968. In 1969 he founded ''Monthly'' and was editor-in-chief until 2001. In 1999 he founded the non-profit organization Understanding Government, of which he is currently president. Peters is the author of four books including, most recently, a biography of Lyndon Johnson. Until 2014 he wrote a regular ''Washington Monthly'' column “Tilting at Windmills.” == Early life and education == Charles Peters was born in 1926 in Charleston, West Virginia. He attended public schools, graduating from Charleston High School in 1944. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1944, serving at Ohio University, Camp Atterbury in Indiana, and Fort McClellan, Alabama, where an injury in a training accident resulted in his being in Army hospitals for several months, and his discharge from the Army in 1946. In 1946, he went to New York to enter Columbia College. After receiving his BA in 1949, he entered graduate school at Columbia and received his MA in 1951. In 1952-53, he worked for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in New York. During the summers from 1946 through 1954, he performed various backstage roles at summer theaters in Boylston, Massachusetts, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and Newport, Rhode Island, and had his own repertory company in Charleston, West Virginia. Peters entered the University of Virginia School of Law in 1954. He was named to the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review in 1955, serving until his graduation in 1957. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Peters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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