Lee Walter Congdon (born August 11, 1939) is a writer and historian.
Taken together, the works represent a trilogy examining the contributions of Hungarian intellectuals to 20th century social and political thought.
In 1999 Congdon was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary - Small Cross.
[1] In 2006 Congdon retired as Professor of History at James Madison University, after more than thirty years of teaching.
He sees little difference between the competing ideologies of America’s political parties and he professes an abiding admiration and preference over the common-denominator chaos of American democracy for some of Europe’s royalist governments of the latter 19th century, wherein "liberty—not equality—was the highest political value.