Format:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 425 p)
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ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0807831565
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9780807831564
Series Statement:
Caravan Book
Content:
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 during the congressional debates on civil rights. The paradox of the senator's opposition to civil rights and defense of civil liberties lies at the heart of this biography of Sam Ervin
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Tar Heel Born, Tar Heel Bred; 2. Just a Country Lawyer; 3. Senator Sam; 4. The Soft Southern Strategy; 5. Claghorn's Hammurabi; 6. Conservative Civil Libertarian; 7. Privacy and the False Prophets; 8. A Time of Doubt and Fear; 9. Rehearsal for Watergate; 10. Truth and Honor; Notes; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807831564
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers
Language:
English
