Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

Born Fighting chronicles the full journey of the between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish settles who migrated to America in the eighteenth century. This remarkable group of settlers played a profound, but often unrecognized, role in the shaping of America. James ¿Jim¿ Webb traces the history of his people, the challenges they faced, and the qualities they developed that helped to settle the American frontier and define the American character.

This story is both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America. Born Fighting reintroduces America¿s most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group ¿ one too often ignored or taken for granted.