- Jack N. Rakove
Jack Norman Rakove (born
1947 ) is an Americanhistorian ,author ,professor atStanford University , andPulitzer Prize winner.Biography
He earned his A.B. in 1968 from
Haverford College and his Ph.D. in 1975 fromHarvard University . At Harvard, he was a student ofBernard Bailyn .Rakove was born in
Chicago toPolitical Science ProfessorMilton L. Rakove (1918-1983) and his wife, Shirley. The elder Rakove taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Barat College (Lake Forest, Illnois). Milton Rakove was also a political consultant and the author of two books on Chicago. politics.Jack Rakove is the W.R. Coe Professor of
History andAmerican Studies and professor ofpolitical science atStanford University , where he has taught since 1980. He also taught atColgate University from 1975 to 1980 and has been a visiting professor at the NYU School of Law.He won the 1997
Pulitzer Prize for History for "" (Alfred Knopf , 1996, ISBN 0-679-78121-8) which cast serious doubt on whetheroriginalism is a viable theory of interpreting the Constitution. 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).Rakove served as
Chelsea Clinton 'sthesis adviser at Stanford. [http://www.s-t.com/daily/06-01/06-17-01/a06wn026.htm]Rakove is brother to Roberta Rakove, a well-known governmental relations expert in the Chicago and national healthcare system.
External links
* [http://history.stanford.edu/Faculty/rakove.html Faculty Webpage]
* [http://www.law.nyu.edu/pubs/magazine/autumn2003/088-101_faculty_part_1.pdf "Faculty Focus," NYU School of Law, Autumn 2003]
* [http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/lhsc/ead/011-19-23-01b.html "The Milton L. Rakove Papers, 1943-1984"]
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