<div><p>Winner, Benjamin Franklin Award™ (Independent Book Publishers Association), Political/Current Events category</p><p>In <I>Hope: A Collection of Obama Posters and Prints</I>, Kansas City Art Institute professor Hal Elliott Wert unveils one of the largest Barack Obama campaign poster collections in existence. This is a collection to be treasured by everyone who was inspired and mobilized by the Obama campaign.</p><p>Among the unique features of this landmark book:</p> <ul> <li>More than 170 posters from Hal Wert's personal collection</li> <li>A Catalog of Posters and Prints with background information on each featured piece</li> <li>The social and political context of the Obama poster movement and its place in the history of American presidential campaign art</li> <li>Foreword by Ray Noland, the street artist credited with starting the nationwide guerrilla poster movement in support of Obama</li> <li>The interior of the dust jacket folds out into a full-color reproduction of artist David Choe's Hope poster</li> </ul><p>A portion of this book's proceeds fund the National Art Education Association.</p></div>