Andrew Ferguson

Mark Anderson

Andrew Ferguson is the author of Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America and of the essay collection Fools Names, Fools Faces. A senior editor at The Weekly Standard, Ferguson has written for The New Yorker, the New Republic, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and many others, and has served as both a senior editor at Washingtonian magazine and as a contributing editor to Time. In 1992, Ferguson was a White House speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush.

Event
Lincoln Scholars, Part I: Daniel Mark Epstein and Andrew Ferguson
When: Tue, Sep 23, 10am – 12pm
Where: Dewberry Hall South, Johnson Center, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (map)
Description: Part of a day-long series of events looking toward the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, this panel features Daniel Mark Epstein, author of both Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington and The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage, and Andrew Ferguson, author of Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America. Moderated by presidential historian Richard Norton Smith, scholar-in-residence in Mason’s School of Public Policy and Department of History and Art History. Sponsored by Gale Cengage Learning, the Finley Lecture Series of the Department of History and Art History, and Mason’s Office of University Life.