Lee Edwards

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

For the cricketer, see Lee Edwards (cricketer).

Edwards in March 2011

Early life and education

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

He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Duke University and a doctorate in political science from Catholic University.[4] His dissertation was entitled Congress and the origins of the Cold War, 1946–1948.[5]

Career
External video
video icon Booknotes interview with Edwards on The Life and Times of Walter Judd, September 2, 1990, C-SPAN
video icon Q&A interview with Edwards on Just Right, December 24, 2017, C-SPAN

Edwards helped found Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) in 1960, and then worked for the YAF magazine New Guard as editor.[6] In 1963, he became news director of the Draft Goldwater Committee.[6]

His publications include biographies of Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Edwin Meese, and Barry Goldwater,[7][8][9][10] and a work of history, The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America[11] and The Power of Ideas.[12] He acted as senior editor for the World & I, owned by a subsidiary of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.[13][14]

Edwards was the founding director of the Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics.[15] He is a past president of the Philadelphia Society and has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution.[16][17][18]

He is a distinguished fellow in conservative thought in the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation,[19] and as of 2011, was an adjunct professor of politics at the Catholic University of America and Institute of World Politics.[20] Edwards co-founded the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation with The Heritage Foundation's founder and chairman, Edwin Feulner, and was appointed its chairman emeritus.[21] Edwards is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.[22]

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 978-1596985629.
  2. Regnery, Alfred S. (2008). Upstream: the ascendance of American conservatism. Regnery Publishing. p. x. ISBN 978-1416522881.
  3. Spalding, Elizabeth (16 September 2010). "Edwards, Lee". First Principles. Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  4. "Dr. Lee Edwards". omeka.binghamton.edu. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  5. "Congress and the Origins of the Cold War: 1946–1948". ProQuest.
  6. Olmstead, Gracy. "Lee Edwards: When the 'New Right' Was New". The American Conservative. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  7. Edwards, Lee (27 January 2011). "Reagan prepared for the presidency in the political wilderness". The Washington Examiner. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  8. Judis, John B. (24 September 1995). "The Man Who Knew Too Little". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  9. Lopez, Kathryn Jean (12 May 2010). "Lee Edwards on His WFB Biography". National Review. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  10. Edwards, Lee (2008). "Goldwater, Barry (1909–1998)". In Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; Cato Institute. pp. 211–212. doi:10.4135/9781412965811.n127. ISBN 978-1412965804. LCCN 2008009151. OCLC 750831024.
  11. Piper, Randy (17 March 2005). "Gingrich VisionS – Winning The Future". US Progressive Conservatives. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  12. Weisberg, Jacob (9 January 1998). "Happy Birthday, Heritage Foundation". Slate. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  13. Annys Shin (3 May 2004). "News World Layoffs to Idle 86 Workers". Washington Post. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  14. "Good-bye to Isolationism". The World &nd I. June 1995. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  15. "Former Fellow Lee Edwards". Harvard University Institute of Politics. Archived from the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  16. "2009 National Presentations". Philadelphia Society. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  17. "Presidents of the Philadelphia Society". Archived from the original on 23 February 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  18. "William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year". Hoover Institution. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 1 November 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  19. "Lee Edwards, Ph.D." The Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  20. "Lee Edwards". The Institute of World Politics. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
  21. "Board of Directors | Global Museum on Communism". Archived from the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
  22. "Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism – Press Release". Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. 9 June 2008. Archived from the original on 18 May 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
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