Historian and Stanford Professor

Jack Rakove

1 article 2014

Jack Rakove is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and professor at Stanford University, specializing in the American founding era and constitutional history. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book *Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution*. He contributed a piece to The Weekly Standard in 2014 on George Washington and the founding period.

Let George Do It

October 23, 2014 · book reviews, Magazine, Books and Arts

Eric Nelson is a young historian of political thought at Harvard whose basic ambition is to transform every topic he studies. He has published three books in the past decade, and each seeks to transform a major subject in the study of early modern (16th-18th century) political ideas. His first…