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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
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.”
Jul 1, 2005 · But Webb's portrait of Old Hickory whitewashes him and his impact on American politics, largely because he doesn't acknowledge the tensions in the Scots-Irish culture and...
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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 · But Webb buys into Jackson’s self-created propaganda that he was a man who stood up for the rights of the downtrodden, and gave power to the average American, the frontiersman, and the little guy. To do so, Webb first says that, thanks to Jackson, all white males had the right to vote by 1840.
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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.
