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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
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The Scotsman, April 18, 2013
...and David Hume put Edinburgh at the centre of the intellectual world. Scots who Enlightened the World by Andrew Ferguson, which has just been published by Polwarth Publishing, tells the story of that exciting period in an accessible and entertaining...
Champion Magazine, April 17, 2013
...power to get out of it? These are two of the least ambitious questions addressed and answered in Andrew Ferguson’s engaging and impassioned new book Why Jury Duty Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Constitutional Action. Ferguson, a former public defender...
Tennessean, April 14, 2013
...been reading the wickedly funny Crazy U One Dads Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College, by Andrew Ferguson. Ferguson starts by reminding the reader that his book is about those students and parents who are relatively well-off, who strive to go to...
Nashville City Paper, March 29, 2013
...of the free.” Born on a Mountaintop has been rightfully compared with Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation and Andrew Ferguson’s Land of Lincoln and is a fine example of what might be called road-trip history: the chronicle of a literal...
Indiewire, March 24, 2013
...film. Remember that “Crazy U” movie we mentioned a while ago? The one meant for Will Ferrell about Andrew Ferguson’s mission to get his son into a top college? Well, Jesse Andrews (author of novel and Black Listed script “Me and Earl and the...
Cinema Blend, March 21, 2013
...exactly a year ago that the Anchorman actor became attached to star in Crazy U, an adaptation of Andrew Ferguson's book Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course In Getting His Kid Into College, which is currently set up over at New Line. It's taken a while...
Creators.com, January 31, 2013
...a return engagement for Clinton's second. Mr. Obama chose two pop stars and a dreadful poet (see Andrew Ferguson's exegesis in the Weekly Standard). Beyonce was appropriately dressed for the occasion. But who could fail to picture her as she usually...
CoStar Group, January 17, 2013
...a sale/leaseback with Cedar Creek, LLC, a wholesaler of lumber and building materials. The sale was arranged by Andrew Ferguson of Colliers International. AIC Ventures closed the acquisition and simultaneously entered into a long-term lease of the...
Tyrone Constitution, January 15, 2013
...to partner Yonga Taleni in the centre, while Aaron Shortt slotted into the openslde flanker berth. Regular openside, Andrew Ferguson moved over to blindside and Edgar joined Jonny Giboney in the engine room. The late changes, lay-off and the heavy pitch...
PC Pro, January 15, 2013
...and other possible innovations that arise when you have tighter control of the modem and router," said Andrew Ferguson, in a blog post on Think Broadband. BT said the change would also allow ISPs to improve their branding, with companies such as Sky or...
NewsLetter, January 15, 2013
...Lisburn Distillery will be without defenders Aaron Smyth and Andrew Ferguson for Tuesday?s Danske Bank Premiership clash with Portadown at New Grosvenor. The Whites are also missing midfielder Aaron Traynor who is serving a hefty six-match ban following...
BBC, January 14, 2013
...for us," said Portadown assistant manager Kieran Harding. The Whites will be without suspended trio Aaron Smyth, Andrew Ferguson and Aaron Traynor, who has been handed a six-match ban for a headbutting offence. Glentoran must plan without Stephen...
Telegraph, January 13, 2013
...Gemma Soames has been rewarded with an engagement ring. The great-granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill is to marry Andrew Ferguson, 39, the chief executive of a commodities firm. We met at a wedding in France, says the 32-year-old journalist. I was...
Telegraph, January 13, 2013
...Gemma Soames has been rewarded with an engagement ring. The great-granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill is to marry Andrew Ferguson, 39, the chief executive of a commodities firm. We met at a wedding in France, says the 32-year-old journalist. I was...