Background
Rakove was born in Chicago to Political Science Professor Milton L. Rakove (1918–1983) and his wife, Shirley.
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Jack Rakove earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1968 from Haverford College and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1975 from Harvard University.
Career
The elder Rakove taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago (1957–1983) and Barat College (Lake Forest, Illinois). 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 West.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 New York University School of Law.
He is also the author of The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (Alfred Knopf, 1979), James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (revised edition, Addison, Wesley, Longman, 2001), and Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Books, 1997). His latest book, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), was published in May 2010, and was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.
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Achievements
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Rakove won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for History 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. On May 4, 2010, he discussed his book Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Pulitzer Prize for History Pulitzer Prize for History; Arts and Sciences
The Pulitzer Prize for History is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.The Pulitzer Prize for History is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.