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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Karl E. (Karl Edward)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legislators--United States--Biography.

Legislators.

Ervin, Sam J., Jr. (Sam James), 1896-1985.

Ervin, Sam J.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Ervin's stories from down home in North Carolina, his reciting literary passages ranging from Shakespeare to Aesop's fables, and his earnest lectures in defense of civil liberties and constitutional government contributed to the downfall of President Nixon and earned Senator Ervin a reputation as ""the last of the founding fathers.""Yet for most of his twenty years in the Senate, Ervin applied these same rhetorical devices to a very

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890869210

9780807884744

080788474X

OCLC:

476176194