Senator Sam Ervin, last of the founding fathers

Senator Sam Ervin, last of the founding fathers / Karl E. Campbell.

Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Yet for most of his 20 years in the Senate, Ervin was Jim Crow's most talented legal defender as the South's constitutional expert duri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Campbell, Karl E. (Karl Edward) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
Series:Caravan Book.
Subjects:
Ervin, Sam J., > Jr. > (Sam James), > 1896-1985.
Ervin, Sam J., > Jr. > (Sam James), > 1896-1985
Legislators > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Legislators
United States
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Tar heel born, tar heel bred
  • Just a country lawyer
  • Senator Sam
  • The soft southern strategy
  • Claghorn's Hammurabi
  • Conservative civil libertarian
  • Privacy and the false prophets
  • A time of doubt and fear
  • Rehearsal for Watergate
  • Truth and honor.

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