100 and More Books Tracing A.A. History

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Nineteen years ago, I began traveling, interviewing, visiting archives and libraries, collections, and gathering the documents pertaining to the diverse and varied history and roots of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Today I have published 29 titles on the subject, each one containing large bibliographies that enable readers to find the facts for themselves. The titles are listed on http://www.dickb.com/titles.shtml.

But this article is to alert readers, students, aa history lovers, recovery workers, and other Alcoholics Anonymous fellowship membership and friends to the sixteen year project that culminating in a single, large annotated bibliography of the hundreds and hundreds of books and articles that make up our history and fill in the gaps for those seeking accurate, detailed, comprehensive history. The sources of the books, the activities of their former owners and writers, and the categories covered are laid out in 195 pages. The book is

Dick B., Making Known The Biblical History and Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous: A Sixteen-Year Research, Writing, Publishng and Fact Dissemination Project, 3rd ed, (Kihei, HI: Paradise Research Publications, Inc., 2006). ISBN 1-885803-97-4.

There are few, if any, subjects related to A.A. and its early history and roots that are not thoroughly covered. Some are the Bible, Quiet Time, Bill Wilson, Dr. Bob, Anne Smith, Henrietta Seiberling, T. Henry and Clarace Williams, Akron A.A., the literature early AAs read, devotionals, the Twelve Steps, the Original A.A. Program founded in 1935, Rev. Samuel M. Shoemaker, Jr., the Oxford Group, the Four Absolutes, the Five C's, Jesus Christ, God, Calvary Mission, the younger days of Dr. Bob and Bill in Vermont, conversion, William James, Ebby Thacher, Rowland Hazard, Carl Jung, Richard Peabody, United Christian Endeavor, Sister Ignatia, Fr. Ed Dowling, Fr. John C. Ford, Clarence H. Snyder and Cleveland A.A., Frank Buchman, New Thought writings, Emmet Fox, Henry Drummond, Toyohiko Kagawa, Harry Emerson Fosdick, E. Stanley Jones, Glenn Clark, the Oxford Group leaders of the 1930's, the Shoemaker circle of the 1930's, and many many other books, articles, manuscripts, and documents including news articles.