Campbell Senator Sam Ervin, Last Of The Founding Fathers 9781469614588

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Автор: Campbell
Название: Senator Sam Ervin, Last Of The Founding Fathers
ISBN: 9781469614588
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Региональная и национальная история

История Америк

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Политика и политический строй

ISBN-10: 1469614588
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 448
Вес: 0.82 кг.
Дата издания: 23.04.2014
Серия: Biography
Язык: English
Издание: 1 new ed
Иллюстрации: Black & white illustrations
Размер: 234 x 155 x 33
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Regional & national history,History of the Americas,Politics & government, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political,HISTORY / United States / 20th Century,HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin (1896-1985) as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Ervins stories from down home in North Carolina, his reciting literary passages ranging from Shakespeare to Aesops 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 different purpose. Between 1954 and 1974, he was Jim Crows most talented legal defender as the Souths constitutional expert during the congressional debates on civil rights. The paradox of the senators opposition to civil rights and defense of civil liberties lies at the heart of this biography of Sam Ervin.Drawing on newly opened archival material, Karl Campbell illuminates the character of the man and the historical forces that shaped him. The senators distrust of centralized power, Campbell argues, helps explain his ironic reputation as a foe of civil rights and a champion of civil liberties. Campbell demonstrates that the Watergate scandal represented the culmination of an escalating series of clashes between the imperial presidency of Richard Nixon and a congressional counterattack led by Senator Ervin. The issue central to that struggle, as well as to many of the other crusades in Ervins life, remains a key question of the American experience today--how to exercise legitimate government power while protecting essential individual freedoms.

Senator Sam Ervin, Last Of The Founding Fathers, Campbell