JACK N. RAKOVE - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 325209
Signature of the American historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, author
of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the
Constitution.
Signature: "Jack N. Rakove", in black ink, 6x4 card. Jack
N. Rakove (b.
Price: $90.00
Condition: Fine condition
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JACK N. RAKOVE
Signature of the American historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, author
of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the
Constitution.
Signature: "Jack N. Rakove", in black ink, 6x4 card. Jack
N. Rakove (b.1947) is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and
American Studies and political science professor at Stanford. His book
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in History. In an interview about
his work, Rakove explained, "The best way to maintain the
fidelity of the Constitution is to reconstruct what its language originally
meant to its adopters." His newest book Revolutionaries:
A New History of the Invention of America was published in 2010.
Fine condition.
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