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Making Known the Biblical History and Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous: A Sixteen-Year Research, Writing, Publishing, and...
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by Dick B.
Sales Rank: 313720
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Cover Type: Paperback with 228 pages
Published by: Paradise Research Publications, Inc.Edition: 3rd Edition January 1, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1885803974
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1885803979
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 0.5 inches
Weighs: 13.6 ounces
Product Description
This annotated bibliography contains the largest-known list of books and other materials that played a part in the formulation of Alcoholics Anonymous. Most of the material, some 23,900 items, was gathered by author Dick B. over an 18 year period of travel, research, interviews, and acquisitions from Oxford Group leaders, Shoemaker friends and family, A.A. oldtimers, Dr. Bob's library, Anne Smith's Journal, and the writings of hundreds of religious books by such diverse personages as Fulton Sheen, Frank Buchman, Emmet Fox, William James, Samuel Shoemaker, Glenn Clark, E. Stanley Jones, F. B. Meyer, John Mott, etc. The book gives the source of the acquisitions and the many who contributed from their own libraries and collections. Those who want to research all the roots of A.A. and 12 Step Fellowships will find this a necessary and invaluable resource. Many of the materials are now located at the Griffith Library at Bill Wilson's birthplace in Vermont, in the North Congregational church at Dr. Bob's birthplace in Vermont, at Rev. Sam Shoemaker's Calvary Church in Pittsburgh, at St. Paul's Church in Akron, at the Seiberling Gate Lodge in Akron, in the traveling collection of Ray G., archivist at Dr. Bob's Home, at Brown University, at the archives of A.A. General Services in New York, at Stepping Stones, and other repositories of religious information.
About The Author
Dick B. is a writer, historian, Bible student, Retired attorney, and Recovered A.A. as well as an active member of the A.A. fellowship who has sponsored more than 100 men in recovery. He has devoted 16 years to researching the roots of A.A., its history, and its successes. His work has taken him across the United States with interviews, visits to libraries and archives, collection of historical books and materials, and communication with historical figures. He has now published 26 titles on A.A. history as well as more than 120 articles on the subject. They are described and posted on his A.A. History and Personal A.A. History Blog sites. Dick is a member of American Historical Assn, Organization of American Historians, Research Society on Alcoholism, Alcohol and Drugs History Society, AMERSA, CAPS, COPE, ISAAC, and Phi Beta Kappa
Reader Reviews
I personally had a hand in the immense task Dick undertook in gathering these materials. We visited Jim Newton in Florida before his death and acquired all Jim's relevant Oxford Group library. Ditto Rev. Willard Hunter in California. And I helped Dick and others display, list, and prepare for shipping the huge library of history that Dick had shelved in the Maui A.A. Research Library in a room set aside for that very purpose. Shelves lined every single wall. Work tables held the groupings. And there were several huge groupings: (1) The huge amount of Oxford Group materials Dick had obtained from Newton, Hunter, MRA leaders and offices, and MRA packrat George Vondermuhll, Jr. (2) The huge Shoemaker collection Dick had obtained from the Shoemaker family, Episcopal Archives, Shoemaker churches, personal journals, and church records. (3) A complete duplicate of all the books in Dr. Bob's Library. (4) The temperance books, the religious books, the evangelism books, the contemporary A.A. and alcoholism books and reviews, and the many stories by alcoholics that were part of AAs' studies and heritage. (5) A complete set of the Big Book Second Edition printings. (6) A large collection of printings of the Third Edition. (7) Forty binders of historical papers. (8) Several huge boxes of tape recordings, including the entire collection of Bill W.'s public talks. (9) A host of similar materials purchased from collectors Danny Whitmore and Dennis Cassidy and elsewhere. (8) Books Dick had personally acquired and used in his research and writings. It's all in this book. And most of it is now lodged, through the generosity of several of Dick's benefactors, in the Griffith Library located adjacent to Bill Wilson's birthplace at The Wilson House in East Dorset, Vermont. The books and materials are there to be studied, copied, posted on the internet, and utlized to help AAs. Their wide variety insures that this is not just a collection that fits some particular collector's fancies. It far exceeds in volume the collection at Brown University, at Stepping Stones, and at Dr. Bob's Home and the Akron archives. And it is far more accessible to those who really want to learn and get well by studying the details of their fellowship history. And doing it in the delightful New England atmosphere of East Dorset, Vermont. It also serves as a backup documentation for the thousands of footnotes and comments in the history books by Dick and others striving for an accurate picture. This compilation is a gem, should be part of every reference library, and can be obtained as part of the reference set of Dick'b books.
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