TPI Replay: The Fourth of July, With Jack Rakove

Jack Rakove, the William Robertson Coe professor of history and American studies and professor emeritus of political science and law at Stanford University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss why the United States declared independence in 1776 and its meaning for the country today.

Mentioned on the Episode:

Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975651)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Paul Revere’s Ride (poets.org/poem/paul-reveres-ride)”

Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (penguinrandomhouse.com/books/137447/original-m…)

Jack N. Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America (politicalscience.stanford.edu/publications/rev…)

Jack N. Rakove, The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (press.jhu.edu/books/title/6574/beginnings-nati…)

1619 Project (nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/16…), New York Times

For an episode transcript and show notes, visit The President’s Inbox at: cfr.org/podcasts/fourth-july-jack-rakove