Jack Rakove — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for History for 'Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution'.
Serves as the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science at Stanford University.
Authored 'Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution' (1996).
Authored 'Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America' (2010), a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.
Earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975.
Elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007 and the American Antiquarian Society in 2000.

Biography

Jack Norman Rakove, born on June 4, 1947, in Chicago, is an American historian, author, and professor. He is the son of political science Professor Milton L. Rakove.

Rakove earned his AB degree from Haverford College in 1968 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1975, where he studied under Bernard Bailyn.

He also pursued studies at the University of Edinburgh from 1966 to 1967.