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Jim Webb
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
New York: Broadway Books, 2004
Former Virginia Senator (2007-2013), Secretary of the Navy (1988-1989), Marine, and unapologetic Vietnam War veteran Jim Webb launched a quixotic bid for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, withdrawing in a few months. (more…)
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Editor’s Note:
Originally published on February 17, 2005, this review remains to my mind one of the most memorable pieces ever to appear at VNN.
Jim Webb
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
New York: Broadway Books, 2004
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In the last few months, I have been working in earnest preparing to write The White Nationalist Manifesto. (Don’t expect it too soon, though. It is a project I have been thinking about and writing notes for since June of 2009.) Recently, I have been reading other manifestos and manifesto-like works: The Communist Manifesto, the Futurist manifestos, Francis Parkey Yockey’s The Proclamation of London, George Lincoln Rockwell’s White Power, and the like. None of them, however, struck me as ideal models. Then Matt Parrot’s Hoosier Nation showed up in the Counter-Currents mailbox, and I found my best model yet.