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Article: My Name is Bill: Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous.(Thirst: God and the Alcoholic Experience)(Book Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- May 18, 2004
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My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson: His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. By Susan Cheever. Simon & Schuster, 306 pp., $24.00.
Thirst: God and the Alcoholic Experience. By James B. Nelson. Westminster John Knox, 217 pp., $19.95.
WHEN BILL WILSON and Dr. Bob Smith founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, they created one of the landmark organizations of the modern era. Two new books, one a biography of Wilson, the other a personal theological reflection, offer penetrating in sights into the problem of alcohol abuse and the spiritual nature of the AA recovery program.
In a compelling, well-researched and beautifully written--even ...