Lee Edwards

Lee Edwards is a Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation. He is considered one of the foremost historians of the conservative movement in America, having published over a dozen books on the subject. His works also include biographies of President Ronald Reagan and Senator Barry Goldwater.

Biography

He is also Adjunct Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.. He is chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, which was instrumental in the the creation of an international memorial in Washington to the victims of communism across history.

Edwards was the founding Director of the Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a past President of The Philadelphia Society and has been a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Edwards has written for major newspapers including The Boston Globe, Detroit News, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times, as well as magazines such as Crisis, National Review, Policy Review and Reader's Digest. He is a frequent commentator on television and radio and has appeared on FOX News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" and "Fox and Friends," PBS' "The Lehrer NewsHour," C-SPAN's "Booknotes" and "Washington Journal" and NPR's "The Diane Rehm Show." He has lectured in nearly 20 nations on various aspects of American and world politics.

Personal

Edwards holds a bachelor's degree in English from Duke University and a doctorate in world politics from Catholic University. He also did graduate work at the Sorbonne in Paris. He and his wife, Anne, who assists him in all his writing, live in Alexandria, Va. They have two daughters and eight grandchildren.

External links

* [http://thepolitic.org/content/view/55/38/ Handicapping the Republican Field]