Jack N. Rakove
Jack Norman Rakove is an American historian, author and professor at Stanford University. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner.Biography
Rakove was born in Chicago to Political Science Professor Milton L. Rakove and his wife, Shirley. The elder Rakove taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Barat College.
Jack Rakove earned his AB in 1968 from Haverford College and his PhD in 1975 from Harvard University. He was also a student at the University of Edinburgh from 1966 to 1967. At Harvard, he was a student of Bernard Bailyn.
Rakove is the W.R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1980. He also taught at Colgate University from 1975 to 1980. He has been a visiting professor at the NYU School of Law.
Rakove won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 1998 Cox Book Prize for which questioned whether originalism is a comprehensive and exhaustive means of interpreting the Constitution.
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.Works
- The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress Alfred Knopf, 1979; reprint: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982,
- James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education, 1990,
- A.A. Knopf, 1996, ; reprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010,
- Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998,
- Making a Hash of Sovereignty, Part I, The Green Bag, pages 35–44
- Making a Hash of Sovereignty, Part II, The Green Bag
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