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    <body><![CDATA[This book confirmed my suspicions that I have more in common with those from the hills of North Carolina and Kentucky than I do with flat-landers and city dwellers from my own state of Pennsylvania.  As far as how you grow-up, live and think, being an Appalachian matters a lot more than which state ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8885245">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was interesting in parts and reasonably well written. It's really a book in two parts, one about the history of the Scots-Irish beginning in Scotland, the Plantation in Ireland through the English civil wars, and emigration, the second about the Scots-Irish in America. The first part is re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66819556">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would actually give this 2.5 stars.<br/><br/>It's more a primary text than an actual history. He gives a broad overview of the general stories and stereotypes, and so his text is valuable as that. But his survey of religion, I can at least say, is downright sloppy. Just as one example, he says t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75515423">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a memoir, this book is interesting and enjoyable. However, it does not appear intended to be a memoir, but rather a historical analysis of the Scots-Irish people and their role in shaping America. Webb does a great job of exploring this but unfortunately he's unable to step back and do so in any ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43333925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Born Fighting is simply spectacular, eye-opening &amp; quite revealing in all the various details, larger-than-life personalities &amp; historical events that are woven together within James Webb's splendid, very eloquent masterpiece that thoroughly documents the entire history of the Scots-Irish race.  It ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50994009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bright guy and future political star writes a well researched book on a little known part of the growth of our country, the Scots-Irish peoples. Technically the term &quot;Scots-Irish&quot; refers to peoples from Scotland, mostly lowlanders, who were moved to Northern Ireland at the behest of the Br...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36120999">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Decent read, replete with substantial, abbreviated history of the Scots, primarily, and their long, long travails with the English.  If you enjoy the TV show &quot;Connections&quot;, then this is a book for you.<br/><br/>It does shed some light on the 'infection' of North America by Europeans, gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10848529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's attitude that makes the man; it's attitude that makes the country. This is the group of Irish, Scots, and poor English who settled in Virginia and got pushed west by the wealthy landowners. Author (and decorated combat Marine) Sen Webb does an excellent job explaining how this small group of pe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41140665">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Webb has certainly done his research but it's hard to get past his lack of objectivity and exaggerated pride. And, while I accept that values are passed from generation to generation, are certain traits really &quot;in your blood???&quot; Anyway, if the Scots-Irish ever decide to do T-Shirts (i.e &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69852587">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a number of caveats about this book.  It's more of a paean to the author's own culture than a true history, and as such, it presents some pretty sweeping generalizations.  Some would challenge his readings of Scots-Irish and American history or even be offended by them.  It might be, as I've ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23960756">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is such a mixed bag.  My family is from the southern hills of West Virginia, and I myself was raised in southeastern Tennessee, just above the spot where Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee converge.  I feel that James Webb captured a lot of truth about the culture of my region and illuminated ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8038840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of the Scots-Irish who contributed heavily to making the America we live in today.  If you are of Scottish or Irish descent you should learn about what your ancestors went through when they arrived in America. The author is the current Virginia Senator James Webb.  MST.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone with Scots-Irish heritage or who knows anyone of such heritage should read this book.  It is a fascinating chronicle of an often-marginalized group of rugged individualists, their movements and contributions throughout history, and how they played a key role in the shaping of the United State...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30007520">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a very good book when Webb isn't boasting about his and his family's military exploits.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good history of the Scots-Irish. Explains why we Appalachians are the way we are.]]></body>
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