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AA Members
Bill W. -Talks by, and/or pages of William (Bill) G. W., of East Dorset, Vermont.
• Lois W. -Cofounder of Al-anon & Bill W.'s wife, talks by and/or of Lois W. Doctor Bob -Talks by, biogrophy of, and/or pages of Dr. Robert H. S., M.D., of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Henry G. (Hank) P. -Biogrophy's about Hank P., of New Jersy. Clarence S. -Cleveland, Ohio, Biogrophy of, and the book, "How It Worked" by Mitchell K. Bill D. -Biogrophy of, and/or pages of Bill D., of Akron, Ohio. Marty Mann -Biogrophy's about Marty and an article titled:An Introduction from Marty Mann. Ebby Thacher Articles about Ebby Thacher
Others -Pages by, and/or, of other members of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Authors of the Stories from the Book, ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
The person behind the stories -who they are and a brief biography.
The person behind the stories -who they are and a brief biography.
Author Unknown -Akron, Ohio, "Ace Full-Seven-Eleven" -from the Original Manuscript (OM), p. 62. -never published in the Big Book.
(Hank) Henry P. -New Jersey, "The Unbeliever" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Hank P)
Florence R. -New York City, "A Feminine Victory" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Florence R)
William R. -New Jersey, "A Business Man's Recovery" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Bill R)
Harry B. -New York, "A Different Slant" -1st edition Big Book. (Clickhere for more resources on Harry B)
Walter B. -Cleveland, Ohio, "The Back-Slider" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Walter B)
Ernie G. -Akron, Ohio, "The Seventh Month Slip" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Ernie G.)
Tom L. -Akron, Ohio, "My Wife and I" -1st edition Big Book. (Click herefor more resources on Tom L.)
William (Bill) V. H. -Akron or Kent, Ohio, "A Ward of the Probate Court" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Bill V. H.)
Charlie S. -Akron, Ohio, "Riding the Rods" -1st edition Big Book. (Clickhere for more resources on Charlie S.)
Bob O. -Richfield (Akron), Ohio, "The Salesman" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Bob O.)
Wallace (Wally) G. - Akron, Ohio, "Fired Again" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Wally G.)
Paul S. -Akron, Ohio, "Truth Freed Me!" -1st edition Big Book. (Clickhere for more resources on Paul S.)
Harold S. -Brooklyn, New York, "Smile With Me, At Me" -1st edition Big Book.
Henry J. Z.? -Akron, Ohio, "A Close Shave." -1st edition Big Book. (Clickhere for more resources on Harry Z.)
Norman H. -Darien, Connecticut, "Educated Agnostic" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Norman H.)
Ralph F. -Springfield, Massachusetts? Darien, Conn.?, "Another Prodigal Story" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Ralph F.)
Myron W. -New York City, "Hindsight" -1st edition Big Book. (Click herefor more resources on Myron W.)
Horace R. (Popsy) M. -New York City, "On His Way" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Popsy.)
Marie B. -Cleveland, Ohio, "An Alcoholic's Wife" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Marie B.)
Ray C. -New York City, "An Artist's Concept" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Ray C.)
Lloyd T. -New York City, "The Rolling Stone" -1st edition Big Book. (Click here for more resources on Lloyd T.)
Pat C. -Los Angeles, California, "Lone Endeavor" -Big Book's 1st edition, 1st printing only.
Second Edition Stories Removed
John P. -Tuscaloosa, Alabama, "The Professor and the Paradox" -Big Book's 2nd edition. (Click here for more resources on John P.)
Author Unknown -Canada, "His Conscience" -Big Book's 2nd edition.
Fred (last name?) -New York, "New Vision for a Scuptor" -Big Book's 2nd edition.
Joe M. -the Bronx, NY, "Joe's Woes" -Big Book's 2nd edition. (Click herefor more resources on Joe M.)
Bill G. -New Jersey, "There's Nothing the Matter With Me!" -Big Book's 2nd edition. (Click here for more resources on Bill G.)
Annie C. -New York City, "Annie the Cop Fighter." -Big Book's 2nd edition. (Click here for more resources on Annie C.)
Nancy F. -New York City, "The Independent Blonde" -Big Book's 2nd edition. (Click here for more resources on Nancy F.) -Nancy's interviewwith The Grapevine.
Robert H. S., M.D. -Akron, Ohio, "The Doctor's Nightmare" in 1st edition, retitled in 2nd edition "Doctor Bob's Nightmare" -All four Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Dr. Bob).
Also see:Dr. Bob and Alcoholics Anonymous: Younger Years -by Dick B. -A new site devoted exclusively to facts about A.A. co-founder Robert Holbrook Smith, M.D. (Dr. Bob).
Also see:Dr. Bob and Alcoholics Anonymous: Younger Years -by Dick B. -A new site devoted exclusively to facts about A.A. co-founder Robert Holbrook Smith, M.D. (Dr. Bob).
Bill D. -Akron, Ohio, "Alcoholics Anonymous Number Three" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. "The Man on the Bed" (Click here for more resources on Bill D.).
Dick S. -Akron, Ohio,"The Car Smasher" in 1st edition, rewritten & retitled: "He Had to be Shown" in 2nd edition -All three Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Dick S.).
Abby G. -Akron, Ohio, "He Thought He Could Drink like a Gentleman" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Abby G.).
Margaret "Marty" M. -New York City and Connecticut, "Women Suffer Too" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Marty M.).
Joe D. -Cleveland, Ohio, "The European Drinker" in 1st edition, "The European Drinker" edited in 2nd edition -All three Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Joe D.)
Jim B. -Washington, D.C., "The Vicious Cycle" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Jimmy B.)
Jim S. -Akron, Ohio, "Traveler, Editor, Scholar" in 1st edition, retitled and rewritten in 2nd edition "The News Hawk" -All three Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Jim S.)
Ethel M. -Akron, Ohio, "From Farm to City" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Ethel M.)
Archie T. -Grosse Point, Michigan, "The Fearful One" in 1st edition, retitled and rewritten in 2nd edition, "The Man Who Mastered Fear" -All three Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Archie T.)
Earl T. -Chicago, Illinois, "He Sold Himself Short" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Earl T.)
Clarence S. -Cleveland, Ohio, "Home Brewmeister" in 1st edition, "Home Brewmeister" edited in 2nd edition -All three Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Clarence S.)
Sylvia K. -Chicago, Illinois, "The Keys of the Kingdom" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Sylvia K.)
Author Unknown -state?, city?, "Too Young?" -third Big Book edition.
Ceil F. -New York City, "Fear of Fear" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Ceil)
Cecil (Teet) C. - "Those Golden Years " -third Big Book edition. (Clickhere for more resources on Cecil C.)
Author Unknown -state?, city?, "The Housewife Who Drank at Home" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions.
Author Unknown -Lucknow, India, "Lifesaving Words" -third Big Book edition.
Lisa -Washington State, "A Teen-ager's Decision" -third Big Book edition. (Click here for more resources on Lisa.)
Dr. Earle M. -San Francisco Bay Area, CA, "Physician Heal Thyself!" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Earle M.)
Pete W. -Pittsburgh, PA., "Rum, Radio and Rebellion" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Pete W.)
Author Unknown - "Any Day Was Washday" -third Big Book edition.
Chet R. - "It Might Have Been Worse" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Chet R.)
Esther E. - "A Flower of the South" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Esther E.)
Author Unknown - "Calculating the Costs" -third Big Book edition.
Harris K. - "Growing Up All Over Again" -third Big Book edition. (Clickhere for more resources on Harris K.)
Author Unknown -Chicago, Illinois, "Unto the Second Generation" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions.
Felicia G. -New York City, "Stars Don't Fall" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Felicia G.)
Author Unknown - "Me an Alcoholic?" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions.
Dr. Paul O. -Laguna Niguel, California, "Doctor, Alcoholic, Addict" -third Big Book edition. (Click here for more resources on Paul O., M.D.) -Dr. Paul's interview with The Grapevine.
Morris B. -Long Island, New York, "A Five-Time Loser Wins" -third Big Book edition. (Click here for more resources on Morris B.)
Helen B. -New York, "Promoted to Chronic" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Helen B.)
Maynard B. - "Join the Tribe" -third Big Book edition. (Click here for more resources on Maynard B.)
Author Unknown - "Belle of the Bar" -third Big Book edition.
Jim S. -Washington, D.C., "Jim's Story" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Jim S.)
John Henry F. (Fitz) M. -Cumberstone, Maryland, "Our Southern Friend" in 1st edition, edited in 2nd edition "Our Southern Friend" -All three Big Book editions.(Click here for more resources on Fitz M.)
Pat M. -New York City, "Desperation Drinking" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Pat M.)
Author Unknown -New York City, "The Prisoner Freed" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions.
Sackville O'C. M. -Dublin, Ireland, "The Career Officer" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Sackville O'C. M.)
E.B.R. "Bob" -New York City, "He Who Loses His Life" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on E.B. 'Bob' R.)
Wynn C. L. -California, "Freedom From Bondage" -2nd and 3rd Big Book editions. (Click here for more resources on Wynn L.)
Bob P. - "A.A. Taught Him to Handle Sobriety" -third Big Book edition. (Click here for more resources on Bob P.)
Fourth Edition Big Book Story Authors
If you are a 4th edition Big Book story author and would like to see your Biography listed here, then click here and send it to silkworth.net and it will be posted here.
Jane D. -Philadelphia, "Student Of Life", on page 319 of the Fourth Edition Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Dave B. - Montreal, Quebec, Canada, "Gratitude in Action", on page 193 of the Fourth Edition Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Ch. 1- Bill's Story
Ch. 2- There Is A Solution
Ch. 3- More About Alcoholism
Ch. 4- We Agnostics
Ch. 5- How It Works
Ch. 6- Into Action
Ch. 2- There Is A Solution
Ch. 3- More About Alcoholism
Ch. 4- We Agnostics
Ch. 5- How It Works
Ch. 6- Into Action
Ch. 7- Working With Others
Ch. 8- To Wives
Ch. 9- The Family Afterward
Ch.10- To Employers
Ch.11- A Vision For You Foreword
The Doctor's Opinion
The Doctor's Nightmare
Spiritual Experience
Ch. 9- The Family Afterward
Ch.10- To Employers
Ch.11- A Vision For You Foreword
The Doctor's Opinion
The Doctor's Nightmare
Spiritual Experience
Joe and Charlie Big Book study
Joe and Charlie Big Book study - Recorded in 1998
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A Study Guide to the AA Big Book -by Ken W.
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Sister Ignatia Gavin and A.A.Sister Ignatia Gavin, a tiny Irish-American nun, helped initiate medical treatment for alcoholics in Akron. It is estimated that during her career,Sister Ignatia helped over 10,000 alcoholics.
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'Diary of Two Motorcycle Hobos' (HTML) *A Diary by Lois Wilson — Bill and Lois — their journey up and down the east coast of the United States, from Thursday, April 16, 1925 to Monday, April 12, 1927 - Wilson, Lois, Copyright © Ellie van V., 1998 All rights reserved. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means. All Copyright, Publisher, Printing, as well as contact information, is included in this Read me text file. (Please be sure to read the _Read me.txt file first before openning: diary_index.html)
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"My Name is Bill W." -The Movie
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| Bill W. -speaking at the 20th Anniversary Dinner NY 11-9-1954 |
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| Bill W. -Intoduction of Sam Shoemaker at St Louis MO 7-1-55 |
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| Bill W. -speaking at the Cleveland OH 1st International 1950 |
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| Bill W. -speaking at Will Roger Auditorium Ft Worth TX 6-13-1954 |
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| Bill W. -speaking in Memphis, TN 9-20-1947 |
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| Bill W. -Texas State Conference 1954 talk about the book . . . |
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| Bill W. -Texas State Conference Dallas TX 1951 Part 1 of 2 |
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| Sister Ignatia -speaking about Dr. Bob |
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| Dr. Bob -on the early days of Alcoholics Anonymous |
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| Lois Wilson -speaking in West Virginia at the 38th SE Conference, 1982
Our Greatest Asset -- Our History The 4th Edition Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous Online World-Wide Alcoholics Anonymous Intergroup Phone Numbers Online Intergroup of Alcoholics Anonymous For the Recovering Alcoholic - 20 Questions That Only You Can Answer ..."His Master Demanded To Be Fed!"... Can You Identify?? Hey, You Drunks ... Do You Remember When??
An Online E-Mail Big Book Study in 40 daily reading segments
The Insanity of Alcoholism OK, so you are thinkin' drinkin'... The Dawn of Truth The AWAKENING The PLAN The Touch Of The Master's Hand The Quest Something To Ponder The Prayer For Serenity Church Sign and Meeting Room One-LinersCollected along The Road To Happy Destiny How Soon Do You Want To Get Well? BACK TO BASICS Learning Your A.A. as originally intended. Going Through The Steps With A Sponsee As it was done in the beginning. The Daily Steps On The Daily Practice of Steps 1, 10, 11 and 12 Every Day From The Beginning of Sobriety. On Steps 1, 2 and 3 On Steps 4, 5, 6 and 7 On Steps 8 and 9 4th Step Tips Thirty-Six Tips For Newcomers For Working The Steps So You Are Going Through The Steps Again WORKING THE STEPS INTRODUCTION and Step Work Index For Each Step An intensive Big Book Study on "Working The Steps" Eleventh Step Morning and Nightly Prayers Alcoholics Anonymous Original Manuscript - 1938 My sponsors insisted I learn my AA from this manuscript. A Manual for Alcoholics Anonymous The 1940 pamphlet printed by Group No.1, Akron, Ohio, Dr. Bob's Home Group. A Manual for Alcoholics Anonymous, in Word Format Zipped Table Talk, A Guide to the Study of the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous A 1940's pamphlet from an early group on the West Coast. Table Talk, in Word Format Zipped Let's Ask Bill W. Answers to Many Questions in Bill's words Moral Inventory Checklist For Newcomer and Old The [Unrecovered Dry, Not Using] Alcoholic An Alcoholic's Anonymous Prayer The Legacy of Recovery Understanding Anonymity On Religion and Spirituality Why Alcoholics Anonymous is Spiritual Spirituality Is A Simple Way Of Living The Right Spiritual Path The Precepts, Concept and Percepts of Higher Power The Missing Piece: The Spiritual Malady A.A. Is Not A Self-Help Program The PRESCRIPTION Getting "It" About Resentments A Grandfather Story Ancient Wisdom - A Starting Point The A.A. Principles and Virtues THE 103 "MUSTS" IN THE BIG BOOK On The Sober Dance of Life More On The Sober Dance of Life The Elimination of Ego-Self That God-Awful Return of the Obsession!! The Status of "Slippers" Learning My ABCs The ABCs Of A Fruitful Life Our Allotment A Sensitive Alcoholic What About Members With Longer-term Sobriety? A Check List How Group Conscious Am I? Another Check List Random Recovery Thoughts Collected In Meetings and Chats The Lone Ember -- A Sponsor Story Footprints In The Sand The Hampshire Grenadier The Man In The Glass From A Chicken to An Eagle Barefoot Writings My collection of "Stuff", prior to the Internet, that I passed on to my sponsees to help us keep our head on straight. The Wilsons Stepping Stones - The Home of Lois and Bill W. Stepping Stones Foundation The Wilson House - Birthplace of Bill W. The Smiths 855 Ardmore - The Home of Dr. Bob and Anne Where AA Started Buzzard Puke and My Understanding of the Names of The Higher Power Happy Friends In Recovery Week It lasts 24/7/365 all year long!!! The Twelve Rewards of Sobriety Friends in Recovery Bulletin Board and Chat For ALL 12 Steppers!!! Only A.A. Material???? An "Interactive" Lord's Prayer Installing Love In Your System The Fundamentals of Truth and Love The Sober Clock A.A. Acronyms
A.A. History Lovers
The AA History Lovers webgroup has over 2,500 members from all over the earth including the United States, Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Mexico, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries, Australia, and India, to name just a few of these far flung lands. But the actual number of people who are affected by the webgroup is far higher. There are many who read the group's postings on a regular basis without having signed up on the membership list, since anyone who has a computer and access to the internet can read all the messages. Enrolling on the membership list is only necessary for posting messages. And many of the group's readers forward some of the postings on to their friends, or reprint their contents in local AA newsletters, or put up copies on their own websites.
95% of the people who have authored the best books on AA history are members of the AAHistoryLovers, as are 95% of the top archivists, rare book specialists and other historical researchers in the field. In addition, over the years, the Archivists at the Alcoholics Anonymous GSO in New York City have also regularly been a member of the AAHistoryLovers, although because of their position, they have usually refrained from public comments on the postings.
So the AAHistoryLovers has gained a reputation as the most dependable single source of historical information about AA. If you want to find out what the real experts say -- the most knowledgeable and competent scholars and researchers in the field -- the AAHistoryLovers will give you the best-documented and most up-to-date information known. And it will also be one of the first places to publish news about newly discovered documents and facts, along with notices of the most recent publications on AA history.
One of the world's largest archives of AA historical material
The collected messages of the AAHistoryLovers forms one of the largest single bodies of good AA historical material gathered in one place, an incredible accomplishment carried out by a number of the world's best AA historians and archivists. All the messages from the first eleven years (2002-2012) have now been gathered together into computer files which can either be downloaded or read on line.
Here at the end of 2012 we are getting close to the end of the line, in terms of people who knew the original founders of AA at first hand. In fact, the AAHL was started in large part as a last-ditch effort to glean as much information as possible from these people while we could still sit at their feet and listen to them talk, and ask questions. The next generation will be forced to rely solely on documents and audio recordings.
Hyper Text Markup Language (.html files). Every Large file will open as an HTML file - a Table. You may have to scroll to the left or right a little to view all content. It will include all clickable links associated with any given message as intended though some links will no longer be available because of time - 12 years of messages - or no longer available. The HTML files below were converted from Microsoft Data Base files to HTML. This is the best I can come up with at this time. I may split the files up for better viewing in the future.
Portable Document Format (.pdf files) Some links associated with these pdf files can be found at the bottom of each pdf file. Just copy the link into your browser to view.
MS Word files (.docx files) ? can be read by most modern word processors:
Text files (.txt files) — can be read by most word processors:
Microsoft Access database files (.mdb files)
The group was originally started by Nancy Olson under the name AAHistoryBuffs, seehttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/AAHistoryBuffs/. March 16, 2000 was the founding date given in the left-hand column of the home page. The first still-surviving messages were put on their Message Board on March 21, 2000. (Nancy went through both the AAHB and the AAHL on occasion, deleting messages that were on trivial topics, or simply repeated earlier messages, or were later shown to have gotten their information badly wrong.)
But in Spring 2002, Nancy changed her e-mail to another provider, and then discovered to her horror (a) that the Yahoo group system would not recognize her new e-mail address, and (b) that her old e-mail provider would not give her that old address back. So no one could any longer gain access to the management section of the Buffs, and keep the group operating properly.
So she started the AAHistoryLovers, and then she — along with Fiona Dodd, of County Mayo in Ireland, who has done an extraordinary amount of work on the AAHistoryLovers over the years — selected the most important Buffs messages, and copied and pasted them into Lovers messages.
Our present work on
archiving all this material
A program called PG Offline has just been used to download all of the first eleven years of AAHistoryLovers messages, from 2002 to 2012. They were downloaded in tabular form as Microsoft Access data files. Mail merge was then used to transfer this tabular data to continuous MS Word files, producing ten MS Word documents, one per year, each one around a thousand or so pages long.
Unfortunately, these messages were still full of the kind of web page coding used for HTML files and other similar online documents, to such a point that many sections were nearly totally unreadable. So another program, called Detagger, then had to be used to strip all of this HTML coding out of the messages.
These documents are still extremely lengthy, and sometimes have the lines broken up in ways that makes them difficult to read. This is the result of literally tens of thousands of extraneous line breaks, which will have to be removed by hand. But once this has been done, these documents should be only about half as long in terms of number of pages, and far easier to read.
The important thing is that they have now been preserved for posterity in a form that will be useful to those future generations. I earnestly hope that the major AA archives all around the world will download these files and store them on a CD disk or some other permanent storage device, to help make sure that later centuries will still be able to read and use this material.
G.C., moderator of the AAHL A.A. History by Mitchell K.Early History of Alcoholic Anonymous
By Mitchell K.
Updated December 14, 2003
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These articles were written by nationally recognized historian and oft-quoted Alcoholics Anonymous archivist Mitchell K. especially for visitors to this website.
Why Study A.A. History?
A look at the roots of the granddaddy of 12-step programs and why it is important to remember them. In the Beginning... The study of the history of Alcoholics Anonymous begins way before its actual founding. A Glimmer of Hope A historic meeting between Bill W. and Dr. Bob plants the seeds for Alcoholics Anonymous. Correcting Errors Why some facts in this series of articles do not match the "official" conference-approved version. Dr. Bob's Last Drink Dr. Bob sponsored more than 5,000 AA members and left the legacy of his life as an example. Early Efforts Bill W. and Dr. Bob began their quest to carry the message to other "hopeless" alcoholics. Roots of the Big Book Most of the ideas and wording in the A.A. book came from other writers. Writing the Big Book There are hundreds of quotes from these early books which can be found, almost verbatim in the Big Book. Financing the Big Book Bill W. turned to the Rockefellers for help to publish the A.A. book.
Self-Supporting
The idea of Alcoholics Anonymous becoming a self-supporting organization came from a surprising source.
Central Bulletin
It was A.A.'s first newsletter and according to many A.A. Historians, contained some of the best early writing relating to recovery from alcoholism.
"Our Father..."
This 1944 Alcoholics Anonymous editorial gives an indication of how important the founders considered The Lord's Prayer to recovery.
The Saddest Day In A.A. History?
A fight over the printing and distribution of literature in Germany has caused controversy within the fellowship.
A.A. Lawsuit Update
The court date for the German lawsuit over Alcoholics Anonymous literature has been delayed.
The Big Book Goes to Press
After long and heated "discussions" the Alcoholics Anonymous book was finally ready to be published in 1939.
Open Letter to A.A. Members
As the 1998 General Service Conference rapidly approaches we take this opportunity to make an urgent plea for assistance.
The Big Book is Published
The publication of the Big Book did not bring the initial response that was expected by its authors.
Influx of New Members
A 1941 article in a national magazine was expected to attract many new members into Alcoholics Anonymous.
Saturday Evening Post Article
Membership in A.A. skyrocketed after publication of the Saturday Evening Post, March 1, 1941.
Growth of Central Offices
As the Alcoholics Anonymous fellowship began to grow in the 1940's, the first central offices were created.
The German Court Case
Despite what you may have read or heard about Alcoholics Anonymous, Inc. (AAWS) being involved in litigation matters, it is true.
German Court Orders A.A. Books Destroyed
There is good news, and there is bad news from three cases involving Alcoholics Anonymous in Germany, from a witness in the case.
Big Book Site Shut Down
A.A. attorney's threats force AOL in Germany to shut down the Big Book Study Group's web site and email address.
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