Jack N. Rakove

Jack Norman Rakove (born June 4, 1947) is an American historian, author, and professor at Stanford University.Jack Rakove earned his AB in 1968 from Haverford College and his PhD in 1975 from Harvard University.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.
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