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Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous
1979
Not-God is a fascinating, fast-moving, and authoritative account of the discovery and development of the program and fellowship that we know today as Alcoholics Anonymous. Easily readable, Not-God contains more anecdotes and excerpts from the diaries, correspondence, and occasional memoirs of AA's early figures than are heard in a hundred AA meetings. Kurtz traces the interesting debts that AA owes to such persons and groups as the psychiatrist Carl Jung, American philosopher William James, Akron social matron Henrietta Seiberling, and John D Rockefeller, Jr as well as the Oxford Group of Frank Buchman, a few Irish-American Catholic priests, and fundamentalist religion. Not-God clearly details the slow but unswerving development of a program of recovery for alcoholics, and it carries the message that AA as a program and fellowship has to give to the USA in the middle third of the 20th century.
Details:
- Age Group: Adult
- Length: 363 pages
- Publisher: Hazelden Educational Services (1979)
- ID: 1130