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Original Title:	Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
ISBN:	0767916891 (ISBN13: 9780767916899)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.jameswebb.com/books/born-fighting

Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

James Webb

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 1406 Users | 202 Reviews

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Title	:	Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
Author	:	James Webb
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Expanded Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	October 11th 2005 by Broadway Books (first published 2004)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History. Cultural. Scotland. Historical

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More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself.

Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character.

Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music.

Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group—one too often ignored or taken for granted.

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Being of Scots descent I was interested in learning of the history of the Scots-Irish in America. The The tribulations they experienced were many as where the contributions they made. While one does get an appreciation the author's emphasis on confrontation and class distinctions were oft putting. What I found particularly offensive was his lionization of Andrew Jackson, in my judgment, the most overrated president in American history. Alas, my bias is showing, but I just care much for the book.

An amazing book by (somewhat surprisingly) a Democrat, chronicling the history of the Ulster Scots AKA the Northern Irish Protestants AKA the Scots-Irish into the New World and beyond. I have been reading this book for 4 months. It is not a slow read, but I found myself so facinated with the history of this people that I had to stop after every chapter and read or watch more about the events described such as Hadrian's Wall, Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, the Ulster Plantation, The Siege of

Anyone with Scots-Irish heritage or who knows anyone of such heritage should read this book. It is a fascinating chronicle of an often-marginalized group of rugged individualists, their movements and contributions throughout history, and how they played a key role in the shaping of the United States. It gave me a new appreciation for my heritage, a deeper understanding of my most deeply ingrained values, and my place in the world. It is inspiring, and I recommend it to anyone with an

This book confirmed my suspicions that I have more in common with those from the hills of North Carolina and Kentucky than I do with flat-landers and city dwellers from my own state of Pennsylvania. As far as how you grow-up, live and think, being an Appalachian matters a lot more than which state you call home. I saw a lot of myself and even more of my family in Webb's descriptions of the stubborn, anti-authoritarian, self-reliant, blunt, clannish Scots-Irish who settled those mountains and

'Webb, a highly decorated Vietnam War veteran, a former assistant secretary of defense and secretary of the Navy, and more recently a novelist, tries to correct this gaping vacuum in our understanding of American origins. On the way, he strives to restore to the 27 million Americans who can claim descent from the Scots-Irish a sense of pride in who they are and from whence they came. His social history is partly a tribute to a forgotten people, a family memoir, and a political polemic. He traces

From Hadrians Wall to William Wallace to Robert the Bruce to the Roundheads and Cavaliers of the English Civil War the American experience began centuries before and has carried on since the Jamestown Colony (1607) was founded in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The modern day education of the South is still rampant with myths that every white person owned slaves; Senator Webb dispels this and other myths of Southern States Americans and does so with a compelling argument backed up with facts of

I was given this book as a present to learn more about my heritage and honestly of this is any indication of what my heritage is I am deeply ashamed. The first 3rd/4th of the book was well written then it fell apart in narrative, coherent thought, and writing. By the time Webb was writing about Andrew Jackson it was increasingly scattered in thought and racist. Once Webb tried to discuss the civil war the writing was incoherent and the content very racist. It was so racist I was genuinely