American historian and author (born 1932)
Edwards in March 2011
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]
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
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
[update] , 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
^ Hoplin, Nicole; Robinson, Ron (2008).
Funding fathers: the unsung heroes of the conservative movement . Regnery Publishing. p. 81.
ISBN
978-1596985629 .
^ Regnery, Alfred S. (2008).
Upstream: the ascendance of American conservatism . Regnery Publishing. p. x.
ISBN
978-1416522881 .
^ Spalding, Elizabeth (16 September 2010).
"Edwards, Lee" . First Principles . Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Archived from
the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011 .
^
"Dr. Lee Edwards" . omeka.binghamton.edu . Retrieved 29 March 2021 .
^
"Congress and the Origins of the Cold War: 1946–1948" .
ProQuest .
^
a
b Olmstead, Gracy (14 February 2018).
"Lee Edwards: When the 'New Right' Was New" . The American Conservative . Retrieved 2 July 2019 .
^ Edwards, Lee (27 January 2011).
"Reagan prepared for the presidency in the political wilderness" . The Washington Examiner . Retrieved 9 June 2011 . [
permanent dead link ]
^ Judis, John B. (24 September 1995).
"The Man Who Knew Too Little" . The Washington Post . Retrieved 9 June 2011 .
^ Lopez, Kathryn Jean (12 May 2010).
"Lee Edwards on His WFB Biography" . National Review . Retrieved 9 June 2011 .
^ 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 .
^ Piper, Randy (17 March 2005).
"Gingrich VisionS – Winning The Future" . US Progressive Conservatives . Retrieved 9 June 2011 .
^ Weisberg, Jacob (9 January 1998).
"Happy Birthday, Heritage Foundation" . Slate . Retrieved 9 June 2011 .
^ Annys Shin (3 May 2004). "News World Layoffs to Idle 86 Workers". The Washington Post .
^
"Good-bye to Isolationism" . The World &nd I . June 1995. Retrieved 9 June 2011 .
^
"Former Fellow Lee Edwards" . Harvard University Institute of Politics . Archived from
the original on 23 March 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2011 .
^
"2009 National Presentations" . Philadelphia Society . Retrieved 9 June 2011 . [
permanent dead link ]
^
"Presidents of the Philadelphia Society" . Archived from
the original on 23 February 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2011 .
^
"William and Barbara Edwards Media Fellows by year" . Hoover Institution . Stanford University. Archived from
the original on 1 November 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2011 .
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"Lee Edwards, PhD" . The Heritage Foundation . Retrieved 4 June 2020 .
^
"Lee Edwards" . The Institute of World Politics . Retrieved 9 June 2011 .
^
"Board of Directors | Global Museum on Communism" . Archived from
the original on 26 June 2009. Retrieved 3 November 2009 .
^
"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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