Just Right: A Life in Pursuit of Liberty

Lee Edwards has been an active player in the modern conservative movement longer than anyone else. As the Daily Caller noted in a recent profile, Edwards “has lived conservative history like none other. ” And he brings that history to life in Just Right.

This memoir is full of colorful stories from a man who has done it all in a remarkable, multifaceted career.

Just Right reveals:

• Edwards’s inside account of Barry Goldwater’s pivotal 1964 presidential campaign, for which he ran national publicity

• How he wrote the first political biography of Ronald Reagan—and discovered early on that Reagan was a secret intellectual who read Hayek, Bastiat, and Whittaker Chambers

• Why the

New York Times • dubbed Edwards “The ‘Voice’ of the Silent Majority”

• How he organized the largest public demonstration in support of our men in Vietnam

• How he created the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, pushing against the federal bureaucracy for two decades to make it happen

• In an inspiring chapter aimed at the rising generation, Dr. Edwards shows how conservatives can remain a major political and philosophical force in America.

© 2017 Intercollegiate Studies Institute (Rafbók): 9781504050203

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Rafbók: 31 oktober 2017