Influential Anti-Communist Conservative Historian Lee Edwards Dies

Dr. Lee Edwards, the influential conservative historian and dedicated anti-communist, has died.

Edwards, who helped build a memorial in Washington D.C. for the victims of communism, was 92 when he passed away.

A formative figure in the modern conservative movement, Edwards helped found Young Americans for Freedom in 1960 and worked as a news director for Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign and the Draft Goldwater Committee.

Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1932, Edwards was introduced early to politics by his parents, who were both anti-communists.

His father, the national political reporter for the Chicago Tribune, encouraged his interest in writing. […]

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