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Autore |
Campbell Karl E (Karl Edward) |
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Titolo |
Senator Sam Ervin, last of the founding fathers [[electronic resource] /] / Karl E. Campbell |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (446 p.) |
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Legislators - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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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 |
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