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    What Really Makes America Great
    What Really Makes America Great
    What Really Makes America Great
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    What Really Makes America Great

    By Creative Action Network

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    Creative Action Network founder and CEO Max Slavkin says this art series was inspired by a widespread interest in creating art to challenge the current political climate. Throughout the first 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency, 100 artists came together to illustrate the things that already make America great. The project has continued beyond those initial 100 days and 100 artists.

    Each spread of the book contains an artist’s statement on the left and artwork on the right side. The art touches on several issues and topics, including religious freedom, immigration, energy solutions, plurality—and even bourbon. It features a foreword by Steven Heller, an American art director, journalist, critic, author, and editor who specializes in topics related to graphic design.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrews McMeel Publishing
    Release dateOct 23, 2018
    ISBN9781524850296
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      What Really Makes America Great - Creative Action Network

      What Really Makes America Great text and compilation copyright © 2018 by Creative Action Network, Inc. All illustrations copyright © 2018 by the individual artists. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of reprints in the context of reviews.

      Andrews McMeel Publishing

      a division of Andrews McMeel Universal

      1130 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106

      www.andrewsmcmeel.com

      www.creativeaction.network

      ISBN: 978-1-5248-5029-6

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2018946743

      Editor: Jean Z. Lucas

      Designer: Aaron Perry-Zucker

      Art Director: Arnie Fenner

      Production Manager: Tamara Haus

      Production Editor: Dave Shaw

      Digital Production: Kristen Minter

      ATTENTION: SCHOOLS AND BUSINESSES

      Andrews McMeel books are available at quantity discounts with bulk purchase for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail the Andrews McMeel Publishing Special Sales Department:

      specialsales@amuniversal.com.

      One of the things that struck me as odd about this election . . . and maybe I just missed it . . . was nobody asked Donald Trump, ‘What makes America great?’

      —Jon Stewart, November 16, 2016

      Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Agriculture

      Baseball

      Belief in the Possibilities

      Black History

      Black Lives Matter

      Bourbon & Whiskey

      Brotherhood

      Civil Disobedience

      Civil Service

      Community

      Diversity

      Diversity of Languages

      Education

      Empathy

      Energy Innovation

      Equal Opportunity

      Everyone Welcome

      Firefighters

      Freedom of Choice

      Freedom of Speech

      Freedom of the Press

      Freedom of the Press

      Gardening

      Girls Who Rule

      Grace

      Guitars

      Hip Hop

      Hollywood

      I Am Free to Be Me

      Immigration

      Immigration

      Immigration

      Innovation

      Intersectional Feminism

      Jazz

      Journalism

      Justice

      Kindness

      Ladies

      Landmarks

      Latinas

      Love and Compassion

      Madres

      Marriage Equality

      National Parks

      Native American Culture

      Non-binary Gender

      Opinions

      Parks

      People with Kind Hearts

      Protest

      Public Lands

      Public Lands

      Public Libraries

      Queer Identities

      Religious Freedom

      Renewable Energy

      Resilience

      Resistance

      Sacred, Protected Nature

      Scientific Evidence

      Small Businesses

      Space Exploration

      Taco Trucks

      Teachers

      Tenacity

      The Belief That Anything Is Possible

      The Right to Peaceful Assembly

      The United Faces of America

      Unity

      Unity

      Veterans

      We All

      We the People

      Welcoming All People

      Women

      Artist Biographies

      Acknowledgments

      Art by Julia Yellow

      foreword

      What is GREAT? The word means (and signifies): . . . of ability, quality, or eminence considerably above the normal or average. In other words, great is a person, place, or thing that rises beyond the trite—that excels in the face of mediocrity and transcends the timeworn and the outworn. And the following preamble represents that very transcendence: . . . in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, promote the General Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to Ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

      To understand the greatness of America, it is not necessary to go further than the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights. No other nation has this binding document. The exercise of these tenets and the essence of these words should be clear to everyone. America is great because its greatness is built into our collective faith in and practice of common values.

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