[re_nortex]

The book, "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America" was a very good read. It was supposedly written by Webb but because of the subject matter and clarity of thought expressed, it's probable that it was ghostwritten and the 'RAT just slapped his name on it.

[Pelham]

Webb’s book appeared to me to be a condensed version of David Hackett Fischer’s ‘Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America’.

One large section deals with the Scots Irish and Webb’s book read like a paraphrase. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Webb’s book was ghosted by Fischer himself.