Adam Schrager

Adam Schrager is an investigative reporter and producer with WISC-TV, the CBS affiliate in Madison, Wisconsin. He has covered politics for more than 20 years, most recently at Wisconsin Public Television and at KUSA-TV in Denver. Previously, he worked at commercial television stations in La Crosse, Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the 1990's. Schrager is the author of "The Principled Politician," a biography of former Colorado Gov. Ralph Carr whose stand on behalf of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor would cost him his political career. The book led state lawmakers to name the new state justice center after the former Colorado chief executive. His second book is "The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care)," co-authored with former Colorado state lawmaker Rob Witwer. It has been lauded by The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and political figures on both sides of the political spectrum. His latest book, due out in the summer of 2013, is "The Sixteenth Rail: The Evidence, the Scientist and the Lindbergh Kidnapping." It is a biography about Arthur Koehler, the nation's pre-eminent wood scientist in the early 1930's who ends up tracking the wood in the ladder used to kidnap Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. to Bruno Richard Hauptmann's attic. Koehler was called the "Sherlock Holmes of our era" by reporters like Damon Runyon and Walter Winchell. Of the new book, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said, "Industry rightfully spends millions of dollars to stimulate innovation. They should spend some of those millions distributing this book. The modest Arthur Koehler was perhaps the greatest detective innovator of the the 20th Century." In his career, Schrager has won numerous journalism accolades, including more than twenty Emmy awards. He taught journalism at the University of Denver and at Marquette University and has conducted dozens of seminars on the impact of the media on politics. Schrager has an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Michigan and a graduate degree in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University. He and his wife live with their three kids in Madison.