Anne Edwards (8) (1939–)

In 1964, Lee Edwards was a young man working in the "Draft Goldwater" operation, a group of conservatives who were trying to persuade the Republican Party to nominate Barry Goldwater for president that year. (Goldwater hadn't announced a candidacy, or campaigned in the primaries.) Those were the days when "the kids" were supposed to be reliably liberal and Democratic. But it wasn't so, and Edwards knew it. He knew that hundreds of thousands of students were far more moderate in their views show more than the ones rioting and burning things down, and he wrote this book for them. It's basically a very practical manual for grassroots participatory politics: organizing, writing press releases, public speaking, etc. And, to those of us who were becoming politically active, it was a big help. The book has become utterly archaic in the Internet age, but it was useful for its time.

Since then, Edwards has gone on to be a mainstay of the "traditional" conservative movement: the Goldwater-Buckley-Reagan bunch, not the Trump-DeSantis bunch. He's written several presidential biographies, and is a senior fellow at the Heritage Institute. show less

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