Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson is a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a columnist for Bloomberg News. Before joining the Standard at its founding in 1995, he was senior editor at the Washingtonian magazine. He has been a columnist for Fortune, TV Guide, and Forbes FYI, and a contributing editor to Time magazine. He has also written for the New Yorker, New York, the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and many other national publications.

In 1992, Ferguson was a White House speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush. His work has appeared in several anthologies, and a collection of his essays, FOOLS NAMES, FOOLS FACES, was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1996.

CRAZY U: One Dad's Crash Course in Getting His Kid into College (Simon & Schuster, 2011)

LAND OF LINCOLN: Adventures in Abe's America (Grove/Atlantic, 2007)