This is the second edition of the book “Alcoholics Anonymous.” The first edition appeared in April 1939, and in the following sixteen years, more than...
War fever ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the...
Chapter 2 THERE IS A SOLUTION We, of ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, know thousands of men and women who were once just as hopeless as Bill. Nearly...
Chapter 3 MORE ABOUT ALCOHOLISM Most of us have been unwilling to admit we were real alcoholics. No person likes to think he is bodily...
Chapter 4 WE AGNOSTICS In the preceding chapters you have learned something of alcoholism. We hope we have made clear the distinction between the alcoholic...
Chapter 5 HOW IT WORKS Rarely have we seen a person fail who has thoroughly followed our path. Those who do not recover are people...
Chapter 6 INTO ACTION Having made our personal inventory, what shall we do about it? We have been trying to get a new attitude,...
Chapter 7 WORKING WITH OTHERS Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics. It works...
Chapter 8 TO WIVES With few exceptions, our book thus far has spoken of men. But what we have said applies quite as much to...
Chapter 9 THE FAMILY AFTERWARD Our women folk have suggested certain attitudes a wife may take with the husband who is recovering. Perhaps they created...
Chapter 10 TO EMPLOYERS Among many employers nowadays, we think of one member who has spent much of his life in the world of big...
Chapter 11 A VISION FOR YOU For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. It means release from care, boredom and worry....
DOCTOR BOB’S NIGHTMARE A co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. The birth of our Society dates from his first day of permanent sobriety, June 10, 1935. To...
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS NUMBER THREE Pioneer member of Akron’s Group No. 1, the first A.A. group in the world. He kept the faith; therefore, he and...
Foreword To First Edition *Tenth Printing, August 1946 We, of Alcoholics Anonymous, are many thousands of men and women who have recovered from a seemingly...
Foreword To Second Edition *Fourteenth Printing, 1973 Since the original Foreward to this book was written in 1939, a wholesale miracle has taken place. Our...
This is a “lite” version adapted from The Anonymous Press Study Edition of Alcoholics Anonymous. See: http://anonpress.org/store/ “Please feel free to distribute or reproduce this index....
From the first edition Big Book THE ALCOHOLIC FOUNDATION Appendix I Page 397-398 IN OUR text we have shown the alcoholic how he may recover...
