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This special weekly section includes the paper's Books Page. The text we'll use is an ordinary map of Kentucky. The names amount to a virtual roll call of statesmen and soldiers who led the fight for American independence. Some of the names are famous to all Americans even today. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on occasion that I wish it to be always kept alive.