I HAVEN’T READ IT, but in response to my earlier discussion of Jacksonianism in connection with David Hackett Fischer’s categorizations of American culture and British roots, a reader notes James Webb’s new book Born Fighting : How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. And thanks to the miracle of Google, I found this NPR interview with Webb from Day to Day a couple of weeks back. It sounds interesting.

UPDATE: Here’s a column by Webb.