aa cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob, Their lives

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A.A. Cofounders Bill W. and Dr. Bob
By Dick B.

An Inventory of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounders Information Sources

• A.A. Cofounders Source One (A.A. General Service Conference-approved literature):
As to A.A. Cofounder Bill W.: Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed; Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age; The Language of the Heart; “Pass It On”; The Co-Founders of Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches, Their Last Major Talks
As to A.A. Cofounder Dr. Bob: Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed.; DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers; RHS (the AA Grapevine Memorial Issue on Dr. Bob’s death); The Cofounders of Alcoholics Anonymous: Biographical Sketches, Their Last Major Talks.
• Popular general literature about A.A. Cofounders still in circulation:
As to A.A. Cofounder Bill W.: Bill W.: My First Forty Years; Silkworth: The Little Doctor Who Loved Drunks; Alcohol, Science and Society (the Yale Summer School Lecture by Bill in 1945 issue); Lois Remembers; The Lois Wilson Story;
The Castle in the Pasture: Portrait of Burr and Burton Academy.
As to A.A. Cofounder Dr. Bob: The Four AA of Akron Pamphlets (Spiritual Milestones in Alcoholics Anonymous, Second Reader for Alcoholics Anonymous, A Manual for Alcoholics Anonymous, A Guide to the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous; A Proud Tradition, A Bright Future: A Sesquicentennial History of St. Johnsbury Academy by Richard Beck. (See Dr. Bob Core Library in St. Johnsbury, Vermont)
• Dick B. books about A.A. Cofounders:
Anne Smith’s Journal, 1933-1939, http://dickb.com/annesm.sthml; Dr. Bob and His Library, 3rd ed, http://dickb.com/drbob.shtml; Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous, http://dickb.com/drbobofaa.shml; New Light on Alcoholism, http://dickb.com/newlight.shtml; The Good Book and the Big Book, http://dickb.com/goodbook.shtml; The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous, http://dickb.com/Akron.shtml; The Conversion of Bill W., http://dickb.com/conversion.sthml; Turning Point: A History of Early A.A. Spiritual Roots and Successes, http://dickb.com/Turning.shtml.
• Some key recent biographies of A.A. Cofounders
Mel B., My Search for Bill W.; Susan Cheever, My Name is Bill W.; Francis Hartigan, Bill W.; Nan Robertson, Getting Better Inside Alcoholics Anonymous; Robert Thomsen, Bill W.; Dick B., Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous; The Conversion of Bill W.; New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker and A.A.
• Two surveys of the evolution of spiritual recovery ideas of A.A. Cofounders by Dick B., Real Twelve Step Fellowship History, http://dickb.com/realhistory.shtml; By the Power of God: A Guide to Early A.A. Groups & Forming Similar Groups Today, http://dickb.com/powerofgod.shtml.

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