[7] His publications include biographies of Ronald Reagan, William F. Buckley, Edwin Meese, and Barry Goldwater,[8][9][10][11] and a work of history, The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America[12] and The Power of Ideas.

[13] He acted as senior editor for the World & I, owned by a subsidiary of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

[17][18][19] He was a distinguished fellow in conservative thought in the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies at The Heritage Foundation,[20] and as of 2011[update], was an adjunct professor of politics at the Catholic University of America and Institute of World Politics.

[23] Edwards and his wife, Anne, who assisted him in all his writing, lived in Alexandria, Virginia.

Edwards died at home in Arlington County, Virginia, on December 12, 2024, from pancreatic cancer at the age of 92.