Jack N. Rakove | |
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| Born | June 4, 1947 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for History |
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| Education | Haverford College (BA) Harvard University (PhD) University of Edinburgh |
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| Discipline | History |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
Jack Norman Rakove (born June 4,1947) is an American historian,author,and professor at Stanford University. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner.
Rakove was born in Chicago to Political Science Professor Milton L. Rakove (1918–1983) and his wife,Shirley. The elder Rakove taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1957–1983) and Barat College (Lake Forest,Illinois).
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. [1] 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 Original Meanings:Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996) which questioned whether originalism is a comprehensive and exhaustive means of interpreting the Constitution. Revolutionaries:A New History of the Invention of America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt),was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007. [2] He was elected to the American Antiquarian Society in 2000. [3]
| External videos | |
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 Booknotes interview with Jack Rakove on Original Meanings,July 6,1997,C-SPAN | |
| Presentation by Rakove on Revolutionaries,May 11,2010,C-SPAN |
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