No one who knew Lee Edwards was surprised to hear the news that the scholar, author, and indefatigable historian of the postwar conservative movement died Dec. 11.
At 92, he had been in declining health for several months and, almost two years to the day his beloved wife Anne died, it was only a matter of time before Edwards would join her.
But that did not diminish in any way the sorrow for the man who wrote 25 books on the conservatism that was born with Barry Goldwater and the Arizona senator’s nomination for president in 1964, went into action through Ronald Reagan’s presidency (1980-88), was revived with the Republican capture of Congress led by Newt Gingrich, and lives on in just about every Republican elected official today.
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