Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers |
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| Author:
| Campbell, Karl E. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4696-1458-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Yet for most of his twenty years in the Senate, Ervin applied these rhetorical devices to a very different purpose. Between 1954 and 1974, he was Jim Crow's most talented legal defender. 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.
Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Yet for most of his twenty years in the Senate, Ervin applied these rhetorical devices to a very different purpose. Between 1954 and 1974, he was Jim Crow's most talented legal defender. 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.