Drunks Are Square Pegs by Charles Clapp Jr. Published by the Island Press, New York, 1942. First Edition signed by Charles Clapp on the flyleaf. Considered one of the historic books of the Alcoholics Anonymous Organization. A Note about Clapp by the owner, Dick Kirkpatrick, is written below the signature. It states: Note: I knew Charles Clapp in 1930. He lived at West Port, Conn. In 1928 he paid $300,00 for a seat on the N.Y. Stock exchange.
Later, in 1937 he came to Virginia, drank only beer( but a case at a time). He joined the Air Force in 1942 as a ground officer and that was when he gave me this book.
Since then I have lost track of him. K.
Added later: He's Dead
Written by Charles Clapp: In January 1942 my book, Drunk
s Are Square Pegs was published. This book contained a fairly complete story of my struggles, defeats and victories as an alcoholic, in addition to some personal conclusions as a result of over five years of being completely dry and over six years of sobriety. Towards the end of my book I put forth a theory of my own--maybe an alcoholic could drink normally if he or she had been absolutely dry for at least five years (I wonder if I would have made it four if that's all I had been dry) and had become completely re-adjusted to life, found his square hole and stayed in it for sufficient time. February 1946
From: A History of The Big Book - Alcoholics Anonymous Written by Donald B. In fact, there was a fellow, Charles Clapp, an Oxford Grouper, who Bill had helped get sober in October of 1935. Charles had been working with Sam Shoemaker, but could not stay sober until he got help from Bill. Charles wrote a book called The Big Bender that relates that story. Clapp was from Bedford Hills. His book was written around 1938 and in 1942 he wrote another book called Drunks Are Square Pegs. In that book he wrote that now that he understood everything about alcoholism, it would be possible for him to drink and control his drinking if he chose. In the A.A. Grapevine of about May 1945, he wrote that now that he had returned to Alcoholics Anonymous, that had you read his second book, to please disregard that information.
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