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TPI Replay: The Fourth of July, With Jack Rakove

TPI Replay: The Fourth of July, With Jack Rakove

Update: 2025-07-01
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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


 


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Paul Revere’s Ride


 


Jack N. Rakove, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution


 


Jack N. Rakove, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America


 


Jack N. Rakove, The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress


 


1619 Project, New York Times


 


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

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TPI Replay: The Fourth of July, With Jack Rakove

TPI Replay: The Fourth of July, With Jack Rakove

Council on Foreign Relations