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The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery through the Civil War (Updated Edition) by David Brion Davis (Editor), Steven L. Mintz (Editor), Steven Minz, Oxford University Press Paperback, 608 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-19-511670-4 / 0195116704 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511670-0 / 9780195116700 In historical writing, there's no substitute for primary sources such as letters and diaries of eyewitnesses and participants. But all too often those sources are handled as minor adjuncts to a text, appearing in truncated form with so little context provided that the immediacy of the material is di |