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- Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America is a book by American politician and author James "Jim" Webb. It describes the history of the Scots-Irish ethnic group, summarising their Scottish roots and time in Ulster and the Plantation of Ulster before entering a more elaborate narrative of their time in the United States of America.
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Jan 1, 2004 · 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.
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Oct 11, 2005 · 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.
- James Webb
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- Broadway Books
Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the epic journey of this remarkable ethnic group and the profound but unrecognised role it has played in shaping the social, political and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through to the present day.
Born Fighting makes a persuasive case for how and why a particular group of Americans, the Scots-Irish, have fundamentally shaped our ideas of what it “means” to be an American.
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- James Webb
Jul 2, 2009 · Born Fighting is an expansion of Webb's lifetime collected observations as to how and why the American Scots-Irish came into being, as well as how they have shaped and continue to shape both American and world civilization.
- James Webb
About Born Fighting. 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.
