Featured Books for Jan. 2012

Born Fighting:
How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
By James Webb
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More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself.

Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soldiers), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character.

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 5 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.


Confederate American
By Colonel Charles Dahnmon Whitt
List Price: $20.00
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The untold history of the common Confederate Soldier. Why be a Confederate? Why did they fight with so much spirit? What did they eat? What kind of uniforms did they wear? What about Confederates and God? What about transportation and marching? What percent of the common Confederates owned slaves? This book goes in-dept about untold history that is not taught in schools.


Forward the Colours
By Leon Puissegur
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Starting with the Confederate Battle Flag the book delves into the flag’s beginning and abuses. It next goes into the history of slavery and how it was first legalized and why it continued. It covers the attempts at the 13th Amendment from the Crittenden Compromise to the 13th Amendment of 1865. It covers Abraham Lincoln exposing his ideas about the blacks and what he really felt about them along with exposing the “Emancipation Proclamation” as the lie it was. It covers the real reasons for the War for Southern Independence, also called the War Between the States, and Civil War. It covers the parts played by the NAACP and the KKK in relation to the Confederate Battle Flag. In the last chapter, it covers facts seldom if ever shown in school or textbooks.