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4:51 PM, Mar 26, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERDeadline.com reports that screen rights for WEEKLY STANDARD senior editor Andy Ferguson's Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College are being acquired by New Line Cinema. "The film will be developed as a potential star vehicle for Will Ferrell," the website reports.
The book is about one father’s adventures trying to brave the cutthroat competition to get his son accepted into the perfect college.
Obsessed with keeping his son from making that one wrong step that could dash the youth’s dreams, dad tries to get an audience with the most sought after and expensive private college consultant in the country, insinuates himself in helping his son past the SATs, and all the campus tours and stressful admissions interviews, all culminating in waiting for the fat envelope that will determine success or failure in getting into an elite school that will siphon off all dad’s savings.
8:04 AM, Jan 16, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENAt the end of the New York Times blog post that first reported Jon Huntsman would be dropping out of the presidential race today, there's an interesting bit of analysis explaining why the former governor of Utah never caught fire within the Republican field:
Read more... Juan Diego Florez and Andrew Ferguson.10:27 AM, Feb 28, 2011 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL
Two memorable events in Washington, D.C. yesterday afternoon: a recital at the Kennedy Center by the spectacular Peruvian tenor, Juan Diego Florez; and a book party at a home in Northwest D.C. for the spectacular American author, our own Andrew Ferguson.
Read more... 4:00 PM, Feb 25, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAYThe Washington Post has a review up of the new book by Andrew Ferguson, Senior Editor of THE WEEKLY STANDARD. The new book, Crazy U, tells the story of Ferguson's struggles getting his son through the college admissions process.
Ferguson's regular readers are unlikely to be surprised by this, but the Post's nonfiction editor gave Crazy U a rave review:
Read more... Andrew Ferguson has issues.Jul 26, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 42 • By ANDREW FERGUSONIt’s starting to dawn on me that my personal campaign to eliminate the use of the word issue to mean difficulty, misapprehension, disturbance, irritation, objection, and a dozen unrelated words is doomed. My parallel campaign against reaching out is probably in trouble too.
Read more... From the March 15, 2004 issue: Postmodern candidates talk like handlers, and voters talk like pundits.Mar 15, 2004, Vol. 9, No. 26 • By ANDREW FERGUSONWE DIDN'T ARRIVE here overnight, all at once--here at the tail end of this hallucinatory primary season, when politics slipped down the rabbit hole of postmodernism and became an activity that is only about itself. Scanning back through the last few years and my own meager experience, I can find three landmarks that, had I been paying attention, might have offered a hint of what we, the people, were getting ourselves into.
Read more... From the February 2, 2004 issue: John Edwards, not just another pretty face.Feb 2, 2004, Vol. 9, No. 20 • By ANDREW FERGUSONGreenville, South Carolina
Read more... The children's crusade in American politics.Jan 19, 2004, Vol. 9, No. 18 • By ANDREW FERGUSONEugene McCarthy
The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism
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