Lee Edwards, Historian of the Conservative Movement, Dies at 92

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Mr. Goldwater, Mr. Edwards wrote, "laid the foundation for a political revolution and led a generation of conservatives to understand that theirs was a winning as well as a just cause."(An alternative analysis is that Republican successes since the 1960s had less to do with the persuasive power of conservative ideas about small government, free enterprise and hawkish foreign policy than with the defection of white Southern Democrats over national civil rights laws, gradually followed by white non-college-educated voters in the Midwest and elsewhere.)Between the Goldwater and Reagan eras, Mr. Edwards ran a Washington public relations firm that zigged when the dominant culture zagged.
26% : As deputy director of public relations for Mr. Goldwater's presidential campaign against President Lyndon B. Johnson, Mr. Edwards was privy to its inner workings, including the details behind self-inflicted wounds like calling to make Social Security voluntary and declaiming that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.

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