What is Lee Edwards?
[[File:Lee Edwards publicity shot.jpg|right|thumb|Lee Edwards]] '''Lee Edwards''' (December 1, 1932 &ndash; December 12, 2024) was an American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] political writer and historian. He was born in [[Chicago]]. He taught at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at [[The Heritage Foundation]]. He was a historian of the conservative movement in America and of the Presidency of [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hoplin|first1=Nicole|last2=Robinson|first2=Ron|title=Funding fathers: the unsung heroes of the conservative movement|publisher=Regnery Publishing|year=2008|page=81|isbn=978-1-59698-562-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJ7phRjZmUsC&pg=PA81 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Regnery|first1=Alfred S.|title=Upstream: the ascendance of American conservatism|publisher=Regnery Publishing|year=2008|page=x|isbn=978-1-4165-2288-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sag0i4r-Ic8C&pg=PR10 }}</ref> Edwards was the author or editor of 25 books,<ref name=Commentisfree>{{cite web |title=Lee Edwards Profile |work=Comment Is Free |publisher=The Guardian }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heritage.org/staff/lee-edwards|title=Lee Edwards|website=The Heritage Foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-07-02}}</ref> and wrote about biographies of President [[Ronald Reagan]], Senator [[Barry Goldwater]], Attorney General [[Edwin Meese]] III and [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]]. He was the Chairman of the [[Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation]]. Edwards died on December 12, 2024 in [[Arlington County, Virginia]] from [[pancreatic cancer]] at the age of 92.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Butler |first1=Jack |title=Lee Edwards, R.I.P. |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/lee-edwards-r-i-p/ |website=National Review |access-date=12 December 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/us/politics/lee-edwards-dead.html|title=Lee Edwards, Historian of the Conservative Movement, Dies at 92|publisher=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 21, 2024|access