Grateful to Have Been There: My 42 Years With Bill and Lois, and the Evolution of Alcoholics Anonymous

By Nell Wing

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942421442
• ISBN13: 9780942421446
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 5.8" x 0.5"

Customer Reviews

A valuable book!

Valuable book for both AA members and others, as Nell Wing was a non-alcoholic who worked for Bill W. for many years, and became also a personal friend of Bill and Lois, closely involved with them and with the history of AA, as she became the first official AA archivist after Bill's death. She offers a unique perspective, as a non-alkie who was there through many of the early struggles of the organization, and understood the huge social impact of AA in describing persistent drunkeness as an illness, a concept that led to the pioneering work of Mrs Marty Mann in establishing the National Council on Alcoholism, and the eventual public and medical establishment acceptance of alcoholism as a disease and thus a public health issue. Readers of this book may also be interested in the biography of Mrs. Marty Mann, a human powerhouse whose work is too little known and understood in the field of recovery.