ERVIN, Samuel James, Jr., 1896-1985

Extended Bibliography

Altman, Herb, ed. Quotations from Chairman Sam: The Wit and Wisdom of Senator Sam Ervin. New York: Harper Row, 1973.

Campbell, Karl E. “Claghorn’s Hammurabi: Senator Sam Ervin and Civil Rights.” North Carolina Historical Review 78 (October 2001): 431-56.

___. “Preserving the Constitution, Guarding the Status Quo: Senator Sam Ervin and Civil Liberties.” North Carolina Historical Review 78 (October 2001): 457-82.

___. “Senator Sam Ervin and School Prayer: Faith, Politics, and the Constitution.” Journal of Church and State 45:3 (2003): 443-456.

___. Senator Sam Ervin, Last of the Founding Fathers. Chapell Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

Clancy, Paul R. Just a Country Lawyer: A Biography of Senator Sam Ervin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974.

Dabney, Dick. A Good Man: The Life of Sam J. Ervin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976.

Ervin, Sam J., Jr. “The Case against Reform: A Nobler Purpose than Political Efficiency.” In The Senate Institution, edited by Nathaniel S. Preston, pp. 192-202. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1969.

___. “Controlling ‘Executive Privilege’.” Loyola Law Review 20 (1973-1974): 11-31.

___. “The Gravel and Brewster Cases: An Assault on Congressional Independence.” Virginia Law Review 59 (February 1973): 175-95.

___. Humor of a Country Lawyer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

___. Preserving the Constitution: The Autobiography of Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. Charlottesville: Michie Co., 1984.

___. “In Pursuit of a Press Privilege.” Harvard Journal on Legislation 11 (February 1974): 233-78.

___. “The Role of the Lawyer in America.” New England Law Review 11 (Fall 1975): 1-6.

___. The Whole Truth: The Watergate Conspiracy. New York: Random House, 1980.

___, and Ramsey Clark. Role of the Supreme Court: Policymaker or Adjudicator? American Enterprise Institute Rational Debate Seminars. Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1970.

Stem, Thad, Jr., and Alan Butler. Senator Sam Ervin’s Best Stories. Durham, NC: Moore Publishing Co., 1973.

VanSickle, Clifford Kenneth. “The Oral Communications of Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. in the Watergate Hearings: A Study in Consistency.” Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 1976.

Wise, Bill M., comp. The Wisdom of Sam Ervin. New York: Ballantine Books, 1973.