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A co relics Anonvmous. by its very
nature, could not have been
founded by one person. Its es-
sence is sharing. Fhereforc. Bill
W. and Dr. Bob are always re-
ferred to within the Fellowship as
the c0-founders. So far. among the
majority of A.A. members, the
Ohio surgeon has been less well
known than his parmer. He died
in 1950, when A.A. was only 15
years old.But his influence on the
whole A.A. program is permanent
and profound.
This book attempts to give a
portrait of Dr. Bob as full-scale
and balanced as possible for the
most part, in the words of those
who knew him personally. Fhe
youngster who grew up in Ver-
mont of the late 19th century be-
came a hard-drinking college boy,
then a medical student fighting
the onset of his own alcoholism, a
respected physician, a loving but
increasingly unreliable family
man, and at last a desperately ill
drunk,without hope until he met
