Just recently published second edition of my book "John Brattain (1720-1784) First American Braattain and his Descendants. It is over 280 pages long with chapters starting with John Brattain and ends with a chapter on the Brattains in the 1930 census. It also has a genealogical record of over 2000 individual entries with 430 surnames and is indexed.
This book describes each subsequent generation of Brattains and related families including those Brattains who remained in North Carolina and those Brattain families who migrated to Indiana, Ohio,Tennesssee, Arkansas, Iowa, Oregon, Washington and Oklahoma. There is a chapter devoted to the Civil War where 20 Brattains fought on both sides of the conflict.
There is one chapter discussing Walter Houser Brattain, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, who co-invented the transistor, the forerunner to today's silicon chip.

These are some of the surnames mentioned in the book
Almond Ausmus Bratton Barbee Clark Craft Deardorff Efird Eudy Gillespie Goodpasture Gossett Hartsell Honeycutt Huneycutt Liggett Mendenhall Moss Paddock Page Richardson Shriver Standley Tilley Townes Tucker and Wisehart

This book was dedicated to PFC Joel Bratain who was
killed in Iraq in 2004.

This book is available at Amazon.com.