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Book Senator Sam Ervin  Last of the Founding Fathers

Download or read book Senator Sam Ervin Last of the Founding Fathers written by Karl E. Campbell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans remember Senator Sam Ervin as the affable, Bible-quoting, old country lawyer who chaired the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. His down-home stories from western North Carolina, his reciting literary passages ranging from Shakespeare to Aesops fables, and his earnest lectures in defense of civil liberties and constitutional gover...

Book Senator Sam Ervin  Last of the Founding Fathers  Volume 1 of 3   EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition

Download or read book Senator Sam Ervin Last of the Founding Fathers Volume 1 of 3 EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition written by Karl Edward Campbell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Senator Sam Ervin  Last of the Founding Fathers  Volume 2 of 2   EasyRead Edition

Download or read book Senator Sam Ervin Last of the Founding Fathers Volume 2 of 2 EasyRead Edition written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last of the Founding Fathers

Download or read book The Last of the Founding Fathers written by Karl Edward Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preserving the Constitution

Download or read book Preserving the Constitution written by Sam James Ervin (Jr.) and published by MICHIE. This book was released on 1984 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Senator Sam Ervin  Last of the Founding Fathers  Volume 2 of 2   EasyRead Large Bold Edition

Download or read book Senator Sam Ervin Last of the Founding Fathers Volume 2 of 2 EasyRead Large Bold Edition written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Just a Country Lawyer

Download or read book Just a Country Lawyer written by Paul R. Clancy and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging and objective biography gives us a comprehensive account of Ervin's life and career, tracing his development from a shy romantic youth into the complex and mature man. The author tells of the boyhood years in North Carolina, the influences of family, friends, and history, the college years, World War I, and Harvard, as well as Ervin's frequently colorful apprenticeship as country lawyer, judge, state legislator, congressman, and senator. Clancy brings to his task a thorough knowledge of Ervin developed while covering his activities prior to and during Watergate. He has had many exclusive private interviews with the Senator, his wife, family, friends, and staff during which Ervin in particular shared many reminiscences, anecdotes, and stories which have not appeared before.

Book The Wisdom of Sam Ervin

Download or read book The Wisdom of Sam Ervin written by Sam James Ervin (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the Senator's brief comments.

Book That s Rufus

Download or read book That s Rufus written by Rufus L. Edmisten and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A farm boy from the mountains of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten could not have been prepared for the halls of power in Washington, D.C., during the Vietnam War era, as young men burned their draft cards and pro-cannabis factions held "smoke-ins" in the capital. A University of North Carolina Chapel Hill graduate, he earned a law degree at George Washington University and landed a job as counsel to U.S. senator Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. This led to Edmisten's appointment as Deputy Chief Counsel for the Senate Watergate Committee--he personally served Richard Nixon the first ever subpoena of a sitting president by Congress. Returning to North Carolina, he served as Attorney General and Secretary of State before retiring from public life to practice law and participate in charitable activities. Written with humor and candor, his memoir recalls the cultural contrasts of American life in the 1970s and 1980s, and affirms that the business of government is to enable us to live together peacefully.

Book Poor People

    Book Details:
  • Author : William T. Vollmann
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2010-10-05
  • ISBN : 006204379X
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Poor People written by William T. Vollmann and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That was the simple yet groundbreaking question William T. Vollmann asked in cities and villages around the globe. The result of Vollmann's fearless inquiry is a view of poverty unlike any previously offered. Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and quiet resignation, allowing the poor to explain the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own cultural, social, and religious terms. With intense compassion and a scrupulously unpatronizing eye, Vollmann invites his readers to recognize in our fellow human beings their full dignity, fallibility, pride, and pain, and the power of their hard-fought resilience. Some images that appeared in the print edition of this book are unavailable in the electronic edition due to rights reasons.

Book Why Confederates Fought

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aaron Sheehan-Dean
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2009-11-05
  • ISBN : 080788765X
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Why Confederates Fought written by Aaron Sheehan-Dean and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive study of the experience of Virginia soldiers and their families in the Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean captures the inner world of the rank-and-file. Utilizing new statistical evidence and first-person narratives, Sheehan-Dean explores how Virginia soldiers--even those who were nonslaveholders--adapted their vision of the war's purpose to remain committed Confederates. Sheehan-Dean challenges earlier arguments that middle- and lower-class southerners gradually withdrew their support for the Confederacy because their class interests were not being met. Instead he argues that Virginia soldiers continued to be motivated by the profound emotional connection between military service and the protection of home and family, even as the war dragged on. The experience of fighting, explains Sheehan-Dean, redefined southern manhood and family relations, established the basis for postwar race and class relations, and transformed the shape of Virginia itself. He concludes that Virginians' experience of the Civil War offers important lessons about the reasons we fight wars and the ways that those reasons can change over time.

Book Dirty Deals   3 volumes

Download or read book Dirty Deals 3 volumes written by Amy Handlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 1137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia unlike any other, this work focuses on lobbying, corruption, and political influence in America to inspire readers to think critically about the U.S. government and to appreciate the opportunities of citizenship. Even before the founding of the Republic, James Madison expressed the concern that special interest influence could become "adverse to the rights of other citizens [as well as] the permanent and aggregate interests of the community." In modern times, examples of lobbying scandals and corruption associated with political campaign contributions abound—and yet our political system can and does further the larger goals of American democracy. Suited for advanced high school students, undergraduates, and general readers, this set examines the three powerful forces that affect every level of government but typically operate out of public view. This three-volume work exhaustively covers the evolution and impact of lobbying, political influence, and corruption from the Colonial era to today. Volume 1 contains detailed scholarly essays on various aspects of lobbying, corruption, and political influence. Volume 2 comprises informative A–Z entries on people, events, laws, organizations, and legal decisions. The entries demonstrate the linkages among the topics but give equal attention to each as an independent influence on U.S. government and politics. Developments since 1990 and the extensive proliferation of the Internet and social media receive additional emphasis. Volume 3 contains primary documents that include executive orders, court cases, state and federal lobbying forms, and codes of conduct related to lobbying, campaign finance reform, and anti-corruption measures.