Grateful to Have Been There: My 42 Years with Bill and Lois, and the Evolution of Alcoholics Anonymous/Second Edition-Expanded and Revised

by Nell Wing

Book Overview

Aide and executive secretary to AA's co-founder Bill W. for 20 years, Nell Wing shares her memories and impressions of 42 years of involvement with the Fellowship. Aide and executive secretary to AA's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156838064X
• ISBN13: 9781568380643
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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.