Product Description: This title tells you about A.A. cofounder Dr. Bob s excellent training in the Good Book as a youngster. It presents an in-depth exploration of the training Dr. Bob received during his boyhood years in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. You will see, from its documented details, that young Bob s major Christian training the training translated into the early A...read more

Product Description: Dick B. has long awaited the opportunity to provide a written introduction to the history of Alcoholics Anonymous that could be used by individual Twelve Step people, sponsors, facilitators, therapists, writers, historians, treatment centers, and interested agencies to include a correct 12 Step history in their own programs...read more

Product Description: The substantial work contains a much-needed and detailed history guide published in order to to train trainers in the full and concise presentation of an early A.A. history segment as a part of any recovery program. This book details all aspects of the original Akron Christian Fellowship Program as reported by Frank Amos to AAs and to Rockefeller...read more

Product Description: Many in A.A. and other12 Step Fellowships are in real doubt as to whether they can be cured of their affliction or whether they are to languish "in recovery" or simply hanging on to a "daily reprieve" instead of the actual cure of alcoholism by the power of God which was the regular and widely proclaimed experience of early A...read more

Product Description: The story of A.A. co-founder Henrietta Buckler Seiberling, the non-alcoholic Akron woman pioneer who dedicated much of her life to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is the lady who heard from her Creator and revealed to Dr...read more

Product Description: There’s a new way out of addictions, alcoholism, and other life-controlling problems. Disappointed and discouraged, many today would like to, and often do abandon A.A., 12-Step programs, treatment, and therapy because of low success rates...read more

Product Description: This book provides a simple answer - It is the answer to those in recovery fellowships who wonder what they may and should mention in front of a new member about Almighty God. The simple answer suggested here is: Tell the truth. Pioneer AAs built their house on a rock: the truth in the Good Book; they invented nothing new...read more

Product Description: A biography of A.A. co-founder Bill Wilson, unlike any previously written. It covers his religious experiences and background in family, youth, as well as his subsequent relationships and activities. The substance of the book's beginning is the conversion and cure of alcoholism of Bill's Grandpa Willie in Vermont; the attendance and involvement of Bill's Wilson grandparents and his Griffith grandparents, as well as his own parents, all in the East Congregational Church in East Dorset, Vermont; then Bill's Bible studies, Sunday School attendance, participation in temperance and revival meetings, and his listening to sermons; then to Bill's daily chapel attendance in Burr & Burton Academy where he was also president of the YMCA; then Bill's first love's YWCA participation and her rearing as the child of a Christian minister; then Bill's marriage to Lois Burnham, a Swedenborgian, and his exposure to the Burnham family's religious ideas; then to Bill's three self-described spiritual experiences--in Newport, on the ship Lancaster, and at Westminister Cathetdral; then with Bill's talks with Dr...read more

Product Description: Dick B. was the first and primary speaker at The First Nationwide Alcoholics Anonymous History Conference held in Phoenix. The topic was God, Alcoholism, and Alcoholics Anonymous. The seven lectures covered the conference theme; A...read more

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...read more

Product Description: For many years, members of church recovery groups, Christian groups, A.A. groups, and study groups have asked for specific guidance as to how to form and lead groups that study the Big Book, the Twelve Steps, the Bible, and A.A. history...read more

Product Description: Yes. Alcoholics and addicts can be, have been, and will be cured and healed of their afflictions if they follow the principles and practices of the early A.A. fellowship. The ingredients of yesteryear are available today. They are simple...read more

Product Description: God and Alcoholism presents a new challenge for the 21st Century. It is a study of the original and highly successful spiritual recovery program of early Alcoholics Anonymous and the changes that have occurred in the last six decades since the founding...read more

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Product Description: In what has now become 15 years of research, A.A. historian and scholar Dick B. assembled over 23,900 historical items on the history and roots of early A.A. and used them in publishing his 25 titles and over 60 articles. This book is primarily an annotated bibliography...read more

Product Description: Each year for a decade, A.A. writer and historian Dick B. has given a seminar at Bill Wilson's birthplace (called The Wilson House) on the history of early A.A.'s spiritual roots and successes. This particular title points up the declaration by A...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Each year for a decade, A.A. writer and historian Dick B. has delivered seminars on all aspects of early A.A.'s spiritual roots - the Bible, Anne Smith's Journal, the teachings of Rev. Sam Shoemaker, the Oxford Group's life changing program, Quiet Time, and books they read for spiritual growth...read more

There have been a number of limited publications of books believed to be those that early AAs read. However, the first question is whether a listing of books will be helpful today to those who want to recover and be cured of alcoholism. The fact is that early A.A. had a documented 75% to 93% success rate among seemingly hopeless medically incurable real alcoholics who went to any lengths to establish a relationship and fellowship with their Creator. One of their major spiritual tools consisted of the large number of specific Christian books and articles they read in their effort to learn about God, about His son Jesus Christ, about the Bible, and about how to pray and lead a life based on cardinal Christian teachings. Several different people were advising them as to books to be studied. First, of course, was Dr. Bob Smith. And this title covers the books he read, studied, recommended, and circulated. Second, his wife Anne Ripley Smith kept a journal of the books read and those she recommended. These also are covered. Then there were the lay leaders of the early Christian fellowship--Henrietta Seiberling and T. Henry Williams and his wife Clarace. The books they read, discussed, and recommended are listed. So too those studied by Clarence Snyder, who had such great success helping alcoholics in Cleveland and then for many years thereafter. Also, there were the daily devotionals in common use--the Upper Room, The Runner's Bible, Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest, the E. Stanley Jones devotionals--Abundant Living and Victorious Living. Glenn Clark produced devotionals that were used, as did Emmet Fox, Harry Emerson Fosdick, and many others. This title covers them all. It offers many choices to those who want to acquire and study the religious literature that was so much a part of the early pioneer prayer, Bible study, quiet time, and reading life. You will find the book, now in its 7th edition, a real guide to what you can read today for recovery, following the same path the highly successful early pioneers followed in Akron.

Anne Ripley Smith was the wife of A.A. co-founder Dr. Bob. She compiled and shared with early AAs and their families the materials comprising early A.A.'s spiritual program--the Bible, Quiet Time, the teachings of Sam Shoemaker, the principles of the Oxford Group, and Christian literature of the day. This priceless source of information about where A.A. came from, what it did in the early days, and what its ideas mean has been presented concisely and thoroughly by author Dick B. This is the third edition.