History of the AA Big Book
Published in 1939, the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book has since sold more than 20 million copies across the world, even though it took 36 years to sell the first 1 million copies. The Alcoholics Anonymous 12 step program book, commonly known as the Big Book, has been translated into more than 40 languages including Korean, Swahili, and Punjabi.
While AA co-founder Bill W is credited primarily with the creation and authorship of the AA Big Book, it was actually a collaborative effort of at least 32 other recovering alcoholics. When Bill W. began work on the book, he dictated to his secretary, Ruth Hock. However, fincial difficulties quickly arose, and they found the need to try and raise additional money. After many attemtps and fundraising and a lot of controversary the Alcoholics Anonymous book was published in 1939. While sale of the book was slow, an article in the Saturday Evening Post in 1941 helped boost sales of the the book that would be credited with saving the lives of a countless number of alcoholics.
By 2001, the 4th Edition of the AA Big Book had been published and the AA World Service was distributing one million copies per year.
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- Wikepedia
- Wikipedia's information on Alcoholics Anonymous and the AA Big Book.
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- RecoverySuperstore.com
- Buy the AA Big Book or other Alcoholics Anonymous books.
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- A great site that has short and feature films from amatuer film makers all about sobriety.
- AA Big Book Excerpt
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Twelve Steps of AA
1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol--that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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