Lee Walter Congdon, Date of Birth

    

Lee Walter Congdon

American writer and historian

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1939

Profession: writer, historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Lee Walter Congdon

  • Lee Walter Congdon (born August 11, 1939) is a writer and historian. Congdon is the author of four books.
  • The first three were The Young Lukacs (1983), Exile and Social Thought (1991), and Seeing Red (2001).
  • Taken together, the works represent a trilogy examining the unique contributions of Hungarian intellectuals to 20th century social and political thought.
  • His fourth book was George Kennan: A Writing Life (2008).
  • Congdon also coedited two books on the Hungarian Revolution.Congdon holds a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College (Illinois) and a masters and Ph.D.
  • from Northern Illinois University.In 1999 Congdon was awarded the Order of Merit - Small Cross by the Republic of Hungary.
  • In 2006 Congdon retired as Professor of History at James Madison University, after more than thirty years of teaching.
  • He lives in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States, with his wife.
  • Congdon is an Eastern Orthodox Christian.In the fall of 2002 Congdon was interviewed in the James Madison University Magazine Montpelier: Politically, for instance, Congdon veers right of the American right, meaning, within a European context, he is a monarchist.
  • 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.
  • For European conservatives," Congdon says, "order is first and liberty only within a context of order."

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