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Temperance Books
- The Natural History of Alcoholism
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By George E. Vaillant , Copyright 1983 . Harvard University Press Publishing, Cambridge, Massachusetts Psychology, Religion and Healing
by Leslie D. Weatherhead. A Survey of the Methods of Healing Through Psychology and Religion "The Christian Agnostic" by Leslie D. Weatherhead in Good condition (1965 ). How Can I Find God?by Leslie D. WeatherheadThis book is listed in Dick B's comprehensive "Dr. Bob and His Library" as one read by early AA's.Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 4th printing May 1934, 284 pages Rudy , David R. Becoming Alcoholic: Alcoholics Anonymous and the Reality of Alcoholism. Foreword by Norman K. Denzin. 1986, 194 pp., 5-1/2 x 8-1/2, ISBN 0-8093-1244-1 (cloth) $21.95; ISBN 0-8093-1245-X (paper) $14.95 Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Religion: Beyond Functional and Substantive Definitions of Religion David R. Rudy, Morehead State University
Rudy, David R./Greil, Arthur L.: Is Alcoholics Anonymous a Religious Organization?: Meditations on Marginality. In: Sociological Ananlysis Vol.50:1 (1988), SS 41-51.
Rudy, David R.: Slipping and Sobriety; The Functions of Drinking in Alcoholics Anonymous. In: Journal of Studies on Alcohol Vol 41:7 (1980), SS 727-732. Maxwell, Milton A., The Alcoholics Anonymous Experience: A Close-Up View for Professionals (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984). Beware the First Drink! : The Washington Temperance Movement and Alcoholics Anonymous by Leonard U. Blumberg, William L. Pittman Paperback (January 1991) Glen Abbey Books; ISBN: 0934125228 Changed Lives the Story of Alcoholics Anonymous
by Dennis C. Morreim
Augsburg Fortress Publishers; ISBN: 0806625481 Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol c1959 "Stations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics". Jacqueline P. Wiseman- author. foreword: Herbert Blumer. Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc. he s copyrighted 1970. 346 pages. "The Alcoholics" by Jim Thompson, Lion Books 127,1953 "An Evil Woman Prowls the Dark Halls of a Sanitarium." a Paperback The Disease Concept of Alcoholism by E.M.Jellinek
Publ. College & University Press, New Haven, CT, copyright 1960, 1983, 246 pages Alcohol, Science, and Society
Jellnick Yale Institute Alcohol Studies Drinking and Intoxication-JELLINEKDRINKING AND INTOXICATION 16plate illustrations.Publ. Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, copyright 1959 Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Inc, New Haven, CT, Science Magazine Article "We can Lick Alcoholism"
Regarding Yale Center on Alcohol 1948 Harper's magazine February 1963 issue 5-page article on Alcoholics Anonymous by Arthur H. Cain. "A A Cult or Cure??"
2nd Page below is other The 1963 Harpers Magazine Article Criticizing A.A. The January issue of Harpers carried an article which harshly criticized A.A. This was only the first of several articles which appeared in national magazines in 1963 and 1964. As a result, A.A. took its own inventory at the 1963 General Service Conference. (on Burke's website) The Gabriel Heatter Broadcast--April 1939.
(Burke's website)
The first national exposure for A.A. came with this broadcast of the popular "We The People" radio program. Fortune Magazine 1935 about Alcoholism MARCH 1941 SATURDAY EVENING POST By Jack Anderson
" Alcoholics Anonymous-Freed Slaves of Drink, Now they Free Others"AA WSO reprinted article in pamphlet form
also now available text and photos from the Sat Evening Post
(Burke's website)
for 2nd website Sat Evening Post Theology and LifeSome Aspects of the Work of the Christian Ministry in the Modern World.Published by Student Christian Movement Peace of Mind by Joshua Loth Liebman, Simon & Shuster, 1946 http://www.a-1associates.com/AA/historypage.htm>Maryland A Preface to Prayer by Gerald Heard, Harper & Brothers, 1944
Children Of The Healer The Story Of Dr. Bob's Kids
By Sue Smith Windows, and Bob Smith Jr
a second page about this book
"Liberty" magazine, and long time friend to AA. "The Greatest Faith Ever Known" (1st printing 1953), and "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1st printing 1949).
Both books are by FultonOursler, an earlier Oxford Group member, editor of "Liberty" magazine, and long time friend to AA. Both are pictured here "God Calling & God at Evening tide" by Two Listeners (20th printing) Edited by
AJ Russell Author of "For Sinners Only" his book about His Oxford Group experience
Early
History of Alcoholic Anonymous
These articles were written by nationally recognized historian and
oft-quoted Alcoholics Anonymous archivist Mitchell K. They are on the about.com
website.
Powerfully
Recovered! A Confirmed 12 Stepper Challenges
the Movement
By Ann Wyman The Search for Serenity Lewis Presnall The Person of Christ by L.W.Grensted "Father Joseph C. Martin "No Laughing Matter"
Chalk Talks On Alcohol. San Francisco, Harper & Row Publishers Inc., A Quicksilver Book. Under the Influence by Milam & Ketchum Primer On Alcoholism by Marty Mann. Rinehart & Co., N.Y. and Toronto. Copyright, 1950, by Marty Mann. 213 pages Bill W by Francis Harnigan He was the secretary of and confidant to Bill Wilson's wife, Lois. He lives in New York City.
Here is the honest factual book Bill W. might have written about himself. Many AAs see it as the definitive biography. It rescues Bill W. from sainthood some have thrust upon him. --Mel B Bill W A Biography by Robert Thomsen c.1975, published by Harper & Row, 373 pages. The Joy of Being Sober by Jack Mumey...(A Recovering Alcoholic) A Book For Recovering Alcoholics And Those That Love Them Publ. Contempory Books, Chicago, 1984, 213 pages, The Story of Ted by Mary Carlton.
Vantage Press, 1956, 1st edition, 216 pages "Alcoholics Anonymous: An interpretation of our Twelve Steps," was widely used in the early days of A.A. in the Northwest