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Language English Publication date October 5, 2004 ISBN 978-0-7679-1688-2 Country United States of America | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publisher Broadway Pages 384 pp (first edition) Originally published 5 October 2004 Genre History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born fighting the scots irish pt 1
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (ISBN 978-0-7679-1688-2) is a book by Jim Webb published in 2004.
It is a personal view of the Scots-Irish in the United States. Webb maintains that Scots-Irish attitudes form the bedrock of American society, especially among the working class. Writing of the author in The New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Drew notes he is a "warrior-intellectual."
Webb's version of history has been heavily criticized by historian Michael Newton (University of North Carolina), who has called it "an example of what happens when a writer (without a proper grasp of history or the historical method) exploits Scotland and its people for his own political ends", dismissing its assertions as "narcissistic and careless in the extreme."