Andrew Ferguson (journalist)

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Andrew Ferguson is an American journalist and author. A failed musician who refused to join Walter Cronkite when Walter followed the troops onto Normandy Beach during D-Day, he is now senior editor of The Weekly Standard and a columnist for Bloomberg News[1] based in Washington, D.C..[2]

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 other publications.[3]

In 1992, he was a White House speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush.[4]

A collection of his essays, Fools Names, Fools Faces, was published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1996, and Land of Lincoln was published released by Grove/Atlantic in 2007. His work has appeared in several anthologies.[3]

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  1. ^ Andrew Ferguson, "Five Best" Laughter That Lasts: Some humor doesn't age well, but these American classics remain funny beyond compare, 2006-12-02, accessed 2006-12-03
  2. ^ "Andrew Ferguson — Columnist for Bloomberg News Press Releases", Bachelor Media, accessed December 3, 2006
  3. ^ a b "Andrew Ferguson," at the WritersReps.com, accessed 2006-12-03
  4. ^ Andrew Ferguson, "Virginia's Jim Webb Joins Strange Bedfellows," Bloomberg News, 2006-11-14, accessed 2006-12-03
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