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Born Fighting

How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

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Yazan: Jim Webb
Seslendiren: Allan Robertson
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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 five 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.

©2004 Jim Webb (P)2015 ListenUp Production, LLC Americas Büyük Britanya Emigration & Immigration Europe Social Sciences United States İngiltere Birleşik Krallık Askeri Latin Amerika Savaş Sosyal adalet Amerikan Tarihi Orta Çağ Scots Irish
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As a Scotsman of Scots Irish ancestry this book filled me not only with pride in the actions and resilience of the Scots Irish diaspora in America but resonates with the working class values of the Clyde side of my childhood and youth. Jim Webb in my opinion has put together an exceptional fictional history of a people who have endured and prospered through centuries of hardship and challenges.

A Thoroughly enjoyable book

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Researching my ancestry and being 89% Scots Irish with most of the rest Welsh, I found it fascinating and informative

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