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.