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Making Known the Biblical History and Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous: A Fifteen Year Research Project, Collection, and Bibliography, Second Edition
Making Known the Biblical History and Roots of Alcoholics Anonymous A Fifteen Year Research Project Collection and Bibliography Second Edition Author:Dick B. 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. It shows where the author obtained these historical items at seminaries, ar... more »chives, universties, A.A. "shrines," Moral Re-Armament and Oxford Group repositories, and at the homes and offices of major participants in the founding of A.A., people such as Frank Buchman's biographer and colleagues, Dr. Bob's children, Henrietta Seiberling's children, Rev. Sam Shoemaker's colleagues and children, A.A. old-timers, bookstores, and libraries. This is a bibliography without which no historian can purport to say he or she has studied the origins of A.A. The materials are new, fresh, comprehensive, revealing, and highly useful for research and publication. The names of the major contributors to Dick B.'s collection are given, along with the books and materials obtained from them. From Oxford Group leaders like George Vondermuhll, Jr.; Rev. T. Willard Hunter; the offices of Moral Re-Armament; the archives of the Oxford Group in Great Britain; the libraries of early Oxford Group activists James Newton, Eleanor Forde, James Houck; the collections of Sue Smith Windows and Robert Smith Jr. and of the children of Henrietta Seiberling and T. Henry Williams; the Episcopal Church Archives in Texas; the archives at A.A. General Services, at Akron Intergroup, at Dr. Bob's Home, at The Wilson House, at Stepping Stones; Princeton University; Hartford Seminary; Calvary Church in New York and in Pittsburgh; and from countless A.A. old-timers such as the widow of Clarence Snyder, Dennis Cassidy, Clancy Uterhardt, Geraldine Delaney,and Berry W. The materials are now largely in the Griffith Library at Bill Wilson's birthplace in East Dorset, Vermont. Some have been donated to Dr. Bob's St. Paul's Episcopal Church Library in Akron; some to Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh; and some to several traveling A.A. collections. The point is that any researcher who wants to know where the bodies lie, where the skeletons are, and where to go to define A.A. history can now do so in open, accessible, free repositories which contain the items reported in this amazing inventory of Dick B.'s intellectual properties. There is no other source like it.« less