Jack Rakove is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science and law at Stanford. He is the author of six books, including “Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution,” which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, and “Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America,” which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and the editor of seven others, including “The Unfinished Election of 2000.” He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and a past president of the Society for the History of the Early American Republic.