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'''Roger Boesche''' (January 24, 1948 – May 23, 2017) was an American political theorist. He was the Arthur G. Coons Distinguished Professor of the [[History of ideas]] at [[Occidental College]].

==Early life==
Roger Boesche was born on January 24, 1948, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.<ref name="latimesobit">{{cite news|last1=Kim|first1=Victoria|title=Roger Boesche, Oxy professor who sparked Obama's interest in politics, dies at 69|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-roger-boesche-20170524-story.html|accessdate=May 25, 2017|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=May 24, 2017}}</ref><ref name="nytimesobit">{{cite news|title=Roger Boesche, Professor Who Stirred Obama's Interest in Politics, Dies at 69|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/us/roger-boesche-dead-obama-favorite-professor.html?_r=0|accessdate=May 26, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=May 25, 2017}}</ref> He graduated from [[Stanford University]], where he earned a PhD in political science.<ref name="latimesobit"/><ref name="nytimesobit"/>

==Career==
Boesche taught American and European political thought at Occidental College from 1977 to 2017.<ref name="latimesobit"/> He was promoted to an endowed chair: the Arthur G. Coons Distinguished Professor of the History of Ideas.<ref name="occidentalbio">{{cite web|title=Roger Boesche|url=http://www.oxy.edu/faculty/roger-boesche|website=Occidental College|accessdate=May 25, 2017}}</ref> One of his students was President [[Barack Obama]].<ref name="latimesobit"/> He served as the president of Occidental College's faculty council from 1990 to 1992, and he won the Loftsgordon Award, the Graham L. Sterling Memorial Award, and the Linda and Todd White Teaching Prize.<ref name="occidentalbio"/> Boesche also played a role in Occidental College's [[disinvestment from South Africa]].<ref name="nytimesobit"/>

Boesche was the author of several books, three of which were about [[Alexis de Tocqueville]].

==Personal life==
Boesche met his future wife, Mandy, at a [[Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War|Vietnam War protest]].<ref name="latimesobit"/> She later taught at [[The Waverly School]] and Westridge School.<ref name="latimesobit"/> They resided in [[Eagle Rock, Los Angeles]], and they had a daughter, Kelsey, who became an opera singer.<ref name="latimesobit"/>

==Death==
Boesche died on May 23, 2017, in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="latimesobit"/><ref name="nytimesobit"/>

==Works==
*''Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society'' (1985)
*''The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville'' (1987)
*''Theories of Tyranny: From Plato to Arendt'' (1996)
*''The First Great Political Realist: Kautilya and His Arthashastra'' (2002)
*''Tocqueville's Road Map: Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism'' (2006)

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