The Great American Adventure is a mural painting created by Victor Horvath in 1976. It was formulated into a media history of US-America on September 17, 2001. The book was published upon request April, 2003 by Thorton Publishing. The Great American Adventure spawned Adventur-Cation which is a patent pending education method used to teach children and adults the history of US-America. It is the belief of the book's author that US-America is, at its center, a great country, but too many individuals lack knowledge of US-America's past.
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“Today’s fathers and mothers—with only the American dream for guidance—extend and overextend themselves, physically, emotionally, and financially, during the best years of their lives to ensure that their children will grow up prepared to do better and go further than they did.”
—Stella Chess (20th century)
“Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)