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Andrew Ferguson
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Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard, is the author of Fools’ Names, Fools’ Faces, a collection of essays, and Land of Lincoln, named by the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune as a Favorite Book of the Year. Formerly a senior writer for the Washingtonian magazine, he has been a contributing editor to Time magazine, as well as a columnist for Fortune, TV Guide, Forbes FYI, National Review, Bloomberg News, and Commentary. He has also written for the New Yorker, New York magazine, the New Republic, the American Spectator, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and many other publications. In 1992, he was a... Read full bio

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Crazy U is now available in Trade Paperback
Feb 14, 2012
Crazy U will be released on February 14, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Feb 14, 2012
Crazy U will be released on March 01, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Mar 01, 2011
Crazy U is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Mar 01, 2011
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Introduction from Crazy U
Feb 19, 2011

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American.com, April 20, 2012
...education. If today’s university administrators are just a little bit crazy, as The Weekly Standard senior editor Andrew Ferguson surmises in Crazy U, his splendid survey of the college admissions process (and racket), they’re crazy like a fox....
Daily Beast, April 13, 2012
...by Maisie Allison Andrew Ferguson reflects on Allan Bloom's bestselling book, dubbed the "first shot in the culture wars": Bloom’s reputation for fuddy-duddyism rested largely on his instantly notorious discussion of the...
Washington Post, April 2, 2012
...Andrew Ferguson is not considered among todays most illuminating and amusing conservative writers for nothing. (Personally, I would take out the among and conservative qualifiers.) His latest on 25th anniversary of...
Washington Post, April 2, 2012
...Andrew Ferguson is not considered among todays most illuminating and amusing conservative writers for nothing. (Personally, I would take out the among and conservative qualifiers.) His latest on 25th anniversary of...
Weekly Standard, March 31, 2012
...exactly what you think​—​to say it in your own words, without compromise. —Ravelstein, by Saul Bellow More by Andrew Ferguson He had gone public with his ideas. He had written a book​—​difficult but popular​—​a spirited, intelligent,...
Examiner.com, March 27, 2012
...Brothers") and writer Adam McKay ("Step Brothers," "The Other Guys") are teaming up once again to adapt Andrew Ferguson's best-seller, "Crazy U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College." The film is being produced by Farrell and McKay's...
PanARMENIAN Network, March 27, 2012
...PanARMENIAN.Net - New Line Cinema is acquiring screen rights to the Andrew Ferguson book Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College, Deadline reported. The film will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Will Ferrell...
Atlantic Monthly, March 2, 2012
...explains why I've gravitated toward journalists like Josh Green, Ryan Lizza, Dave Weigel, James Fallows, John Heilemann, Andrew Ferguson, John Dickerson, and assorted others. Particularly when these journalists write at feature or book length (as when...
Stoney Creek News, March 1, 2012
...at McMaster University Feb. 23. Phil Gillen was the top scorer for Newman (9-5) against first-place Cathedral (12-2). Andrew Ferguson had nine points, while Lucas Mancini and Juwon Goldson each had eight. Cathedral trailed 28-16 at the half before...
NPR, March 1, 2012
...Stieg Larsson, Arthur Phillips, Stephen Hawking and more. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Patrick Dewitt, Betty White and Andrew Ferguson. Please keep your community civil. All comments must follow the NPR.org Community rules and terms of use. See...
NPR, February 29, 2012
...Stieg Larsson, Arthur Phillips, Stephen Hawking and more. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Patrick Dewitt, Betty White and Andrew Ferguson. Please keep your community civil. All comments must follow the NPR.org Community rules and terms of use. See...
Paragould Daily Press, February 29, 2012
...buttons to push, and I think every one of these kids got better this year." Senior guard Andrew Ferguson leads a GCT team "that has been grinding out since seventh grade." And that's the same style of attack the Eagles will take to the Comets again...
League Unlimited, February 29, 2012
...by Tim Costello, Justin Davies & Ethan James by LeagueUnlimited.com by New South Wales Rugby League by Andrew Ferguson Search Articles if (twttr != null ©...
Tucson Citizen, February 28, 2012
...Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College by Andrew Ferguson (Simon & Schuster, $16) Andrew Ferguson, a senior editor at the Weekly Standard, chronicles his experiences navigating the admissions process of getting his son into...