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Good Biography of Senator Sam Ervin

I was looking forward to learning more about one of the great senators from my state of North Carolina, Sam Ervin. While I did learn more than when I started, the book focused too much on the apparent contradiction between opposing civil rights and defending civil liberties. This narrow focus almost presented a false dichotomy in Ervin's constitutional and cultural perspective.

What really bothered me about this book was its narrator. He seemed to have no interest in the subject of the book and he mumbled a great deal. I will not listen to this narrator again unless he took voice lessons from Bob Souer or Peter Francis James.

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