Richard E. Foglesong is an American historian and political scientist who focuses on

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and

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politics,

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and the politics of urban development,

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politics, and the history of

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and the Reedy Creek Improvement District. He is the George and Harriet Cornell Professor of Politics, Emeritus at

Rollins College Rollins College is a private college in Winter Park, Florida. It was founded in November 1885 and has about 30 undergraduate majors and several graduate programs. It is Florida's fourth oldest post-secondary institution. History Rollins Colle ...

Education and career

Foglesong earned his M.A. in urban affairs and his

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in political science at the

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, where he was a Ford Foundation Urban Fellow. He began his teaching career at

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, and joined Rollins College in 1984. In 1990, he went on leave from Rollins to take a temporary appointment at the

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, as the Harvey Perloff Professor of Urban Planning. He retired in 2018.

Books

Foglesong's books include: *''Planning the Capitalist City: The Colonial Era to the 1920s'' (Princeton University Press, 1986) *''Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando'' (Yale University Press, 2001) *''Immigrant Prince: Mel Martinez and the American Dream'' (University Press, of Florida, 2011)Reviews of ''Immigrant Prince'': * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Foglesong, Richard 1948 births University of Chicago alumni Living people Writers from Enid, Oklahoma Historians from Oklahoma Rollins College faculty 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers