Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America - Softcover

Webb, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0767916891 ISBN 13: 9780767916899

Verlag: Crown, 2005

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Book by Webb James

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"Born Fighting is a bombshell--or else the most brilliant battle flare ever launched by a book. James Webb reveals the all-but-invisible ethnic group that has created the core beliefs of democracy American-style: our rights come from God, not the Government; all of us are born equal, and "born aristocrats" don't exist; and tread on either of those two truths, and we'll fight you down to the last unbroken hyoid bone. The Scots-Irish, for such is their name, have fought all our wars for us, including Vietnam. James Webb was there, and he can count. He has written not only an engrossing story but also an important work of sociological history in the tradition of the great James Graham Leyburn."
--Tom Wolfe

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The best-selling novelist and author of Fields of Fire and The Emperor's General traces the history of the Scots-Irish in America, following their odyssey from their native Scotland, through their settlement in Northern Ireland, to their migration to America in the eighteenth century, revealing their important influence on the history of America. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Crown
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0767916891
• ISBN 13: 9780767916899
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400