Lee Edwards

Lee Edwards (born 1932) is a conservative academic and author, currently a fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He is a historian of the conservative movement in America.[1][2]

For the New Zealand cricketer, see Lee Edwards (cricketer).

Lee Edwards
Born
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
OccupationHistorian and author
Heritage Foundation fellow

Background

Edwards was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1932. Edwards says he was influenced by the politics of his parents, both anti-communist. His father was a journalist for the Chicago Tribune.[3]

He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Duke University and a doctorate in world politics from Catholic University.

Career

Edwards helped found Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) in 1960, and then worked for the YAF magazine New Guard as editor.[4] In 1963, he became news director of the Draft Goldwater Committee.[4]

Edwards has written biographies of Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Edwin Meese III and Goldwater,[5][6][7][8] as well as a number of other books, which include The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America[9] and The Power of Ideas.[10]

Edwards has been a senior editor for the World & I, owned by a subsidiary of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.[11][12]

Edwards was the founding director of the Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics.[13] He is a past president of the Philadelphia Society and has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution.[14][15][16]

He is a distinguished fellow in conservative thought at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation,[17] and as of 2011, holds the title of adjunct professor of politics at the Catholic University of America and at the Institute of World Politics.[18]

Edwards is chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation[19] and a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.[20]

Personal

He and his wife, Anne, who assists him in all his writing, live in Alexandria, Virginia. They have two daughters and eleven grandchildren.

References
  1. Hoplin, Nicole; Robinson, Ron (2008). Funding fathers: the unsung heroes of the conservative movement. Regnery Publishing. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-59698-562-9.
  2. Regnery, Alfred S. (2008). Upstream: the ascendance of American conservatism. Regnery Publishing. p. x. ISBN 978-1-4165-2288-1.
  3. Spalding, Elizabeth (16 September 2010). "Edwards, Lee". First Principles. Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  4. Olmstead, Gracy. "Lee Edwards: When the 'New Right' Was New". The American Conservative. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  5. Edwards, Lee (27 January 2011). "Reagan prepared for the presidency in the political wilderness". The Washington Examiner. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  6. Judis, John B. (24 September 1995). "The Man Who Knew Too Little". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  7. Lopez, Kathryn Jean (12 May 2010). "Lee Edwards on His WFB Biography". National Review. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  8. Edwards, Lee (2008). "Goldwater, Barry (1909–1998)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; Cato Institute. pp. 211–12. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n127. ISBN 978-1-4129-6580-4. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.
  9. Piper, Randy (17 March 2005). "Gingrich VisionS – Winning The Future". US Progressive Conservatives. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  10. Weisberg, Jacob (9 January 1998). "Happy Birthday, Heritage Foundation". Slate. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  11. Annys Shin (3 May 2004). "News World Layoffs to Idle 86 Workers". Washington Post. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  12. "Good-bye to Isolationism". The World &nd I. June 1995. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  13. "Former Fellow Lee Edwards". Harvard University Institute of Politics. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  14. "2009 National Presentations". Philadelphia Society. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  15. https://web.archive.org/web/20100223102538/http://phillysoc.org/presiden.htm. Archived from the original on 23 February 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. "William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year". Hoover Institution. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 1 November 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  17. "Lee Edwards, Ph.D." The Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  18. "Lee Edwards". The Institute of World Politics. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  19. https://web.archive.org/web/20090626064941/http://www.globalmuseumoncommunism.org/content/board-directors. Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. "Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism - Press Release". Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. 9 June 2008. Archived from the original on 13 May 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
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