Just recently published third edition of my book "John Brattain (1720-1784) First American Brattain and his Descendants. It is over 190 pages long with 24 chapters starting with John Brattain and ends with a chapter on the Brattains who were head of households in the 1930 census. It also has a genealogical record of over 4000 individual entries with 430 surnames and is indexed on CD.
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 21 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.
The book also lists every Brattain who registered for the draft in WWI and WWII. It also has a chapter on Ulysses Bratton, famed civil rights Arkansas attorney who represented black tenant farmers in the early 1910s.
There is a chapter on Alice Gertrude Vincent Brattain's Maori and English ancestors. Those who are interested email me at brattainancestor@aol.com for order form.