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Aug 5, 2011 · Already, Webb is making a case he will repeat many times: the Scots-Irish a) like to fight, b) are brave (really braver than anyone else), and c) show their independence by fighting. The first tenet really discredits the second two.
Dec 1, 2004 · In the Wall Street Journal, Webb called this “the most vicious ethnic slur of the presidential campaign,” noting dryly that Krauthammer “has never complained about this ethnic group when it has marched off to fight the wars he wishes upon us.”
He accused Webb of "taking history personally" and generally lambasted the book for what seemed to be an intentionally misleading narrative. [5] Born Fighting was the basis for a two-part Smithsonian Channel program on the Scots-Irish influence in America. [6]
- James Webb
- 2004
Jul 1, 2005 · Webb notes that by the time of the great emigration to America–starting around the turn of the 18th century—-the Scots-Irish had seen more than 700 years of almost continuous warfare along the...
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Sep 7, 2016 · Born Fighting hit the stands at a time when the Old Order is fading out, when it is apparent that America is becoming a giant pool of labor and resources in the corporate web, no longer a sovereign state maintained by a people for their security and perpetuation. Propaganda, not law, rules America.
Aug 8, 2011 · Webb states that the Scots-Irish enlisted in droves for the Confederacy, but, predictably, that “few fought to preserve slavery… they fought against invasion, to save their homes, and protect their families.”
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March 12, 2005. “Born Fighting, How the Scots-Irish Shaped America,” by James Webb. I’d like to call attention to this historical treatment, by James Webb, of the discrete but not necessarily insular Scots-Irish Protestant minority, which has contributed a great deal to basic American attitudes.
