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had been a successful Wall Street businessman, but his career was in shambles because of his chronic alcoholism. In 2012, the Library of Congress designated it as one of 88 "Books that Shaped America." History Wilson's home Stepping Stones in Katonah, New York, where his writing desk is part of the museumīill W.
In 2011, Time magazine placed the book on its list of the 100 best and most influential books written in English since 1923, the year in which the magazine was first published. It is one of the best-selling books of all time, having sold 30 million copies. It is the predecessor of the seminal " twelve-step method" widely used to treat many addictions, from alcoholism, heroin addiction and marijuana addiction to overeating, sex addiction and gambling addiction, with a strong spiritual and social emphasis. Bob), the other AA founder, in Akron, Ohio. " Bill W." Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA or A.A.), and many of the first 100 members of the group, the composition process was collaborative, with drafts of the book being sent back and forth between Bill W.'s group in New York and Robert Holbrook Smith (Dr. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism (nicknamed The Big Book because of the thickness of the paper used in the first edition) is a 1939 basic text, describing how to successfully recover from alcoholism.
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