LEADER 02486nam 2200553 a 450 001 9910451566703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8078-8474-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000487668 035 $a(EBL)354265 035 $a(OCoLC)476176194 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000244077 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11210404 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244077 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10168749 035 $a(PQKB)10555111 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC354265 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL354265 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10273418 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929384 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000487668 100 $a20070629d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSenator Sam Ervin, last of the founding fathers$b[electronic resource] /$fKarl E. Campbell 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (446 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1458-8 311 $a0-8078-3156-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTar 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. 330 $aMany 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 606 $aLegislators$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLegislators 676 $a328.73092 676 $aB 700 $aCampbell$b Karl E$g(Karl Edward)$0977176 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451566703321 996 $aSenator Sam Ervin, last of the founding fathers$92226109 997 $aUNINA