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Born Fighting with each other shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War military; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; these were the freelance writers Edgar Allan Poe and Make Twain; plus they have given America numerous great military services leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as almost all of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only five percent of whom owned or operated slaves, and who fought against what they considered an invading military). It illustrates the way the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movements and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Monthly bill Clinton. And it explores the way the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard good luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation's elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services services, the Bible Belt, and country music. Both a recognized work of social history and a real human drama that speaks straight to the heart and soul of modern-day America, Given birth to Fighting with each other reintroduces America to its most effective, patriotic, and individualistic social group - one too often ignored or taken for granted.
