| Jack N. Rakove AKA Jack Norman Rakove Born: 4-Jun-1947
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Original Meanings Military service: US Army Reserve Father: Milton L. Rakove (political scientist, b. 1918, d. 1983)
Mother: Shirley
Wife: Helen (attorney, m. 1969, two sons)
Son: Dan Rakove
Son: Robert B. Rakove (historian)
High School: Evanston Township High School, Evanston, IL
University: University of Edinburgh (attended 1966-67)
University: AB History, Haverford College (1968)
University: PhD History, Harvard University (1975)
Professor: History, Colgate University (1975-80)
Professor: History and American Studies, Stanford University (1980-)
Pulitzer Prize for History 1997 for Original Meanings
American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1999
American Antiquarian Society 2000
American Philosophical Society 2007
Society for the History of the Early American Republic President (2002-03)
Author of books:
The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (1979, history)
James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (1990, biography)
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996, law)
Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents (1997, history)
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (2010, history)
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