Jack N. Rakove

Jack Rakove is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science, emeritus, at Stanford University, where he began teaching in 1980. He is the author of eight books, including Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996), which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, and Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (2010), which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize.