Edwards, Lee

Biographical Note

Edwards, a historian of American conservatism, has been the author or editor of over 20 books, including biographies of Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and Edwin Meese III, as well as histories of the Heritage Foundation and the conservative movement as a whole.

Edwards earned a doctorate in world politics from the Catholic University of America as well as a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Duke University. He completed graduate work at The Sorbonne, Paris and received an honorary doctoral degree in humane letters from Grove City College.

An adjunct professor of politics at the Catholic University of America, Edwards was also the founding director of the Institute of Political Journalism at Georgetown University and a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Edwards was also a media fellow at the Hoover Institution.

A frequently guest on cable and broadcast outlets such as Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg, NBC, PBS, C-SPAN and NPR, Edwards has also been published in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, National Review, Human Events and American Spectator .

Among his awards and honors are the Millennium Star of Lithuania, the Cross of Terra Mariana of Estonia, the Friendship Medal of Diplomacy from the Republic of China (Taiwan), the John Ashbrook Award, the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award and the Walter Judd Freedom Award.

Sources: Lee Edwards Staff Page: http://www.heritage.org/About/Staff/E/Lee-Edwards

From the guide to the Lee Edwards papers, 1878-2004, (Hoover Institution Archives)