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It is an act of presumption for any man to write the life of another. How can any of us be so sure of our own perceptions to say in print "this is what so-and-so was really like"? When the subject of a biography is a man whose life has had a revolutionary effect on hundreds of thousands of others, that presumption may seem a kind of impertinence. Bill W. told his own story many times; he also wrote about it. Possibly because of New England reticence, the emphasis was always on the second half of his life. He gave few details of his childhood, his youth or the early years of his marriage. However, it was my privilege - my blessing, if you will - to have known and worked beside Bill during the last twelve years of his life, when he had begun to understand that his biography would be written one day, and he made many attempts in notes, in letters, and on tape recordings "to set the record somewhere near straight." Bill Wilson was an alcoholic and believed his alcoholism a three-pronged illness, physical, mental and spiritual. Because of this he knew that a drunk's true story must be told subjectively; otherwise it would be only an endless series of ridiculous, unmotivated episodes. I

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Author

Thomsen, Robert

Publisher

Harper & Row

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060912567

Category

biography

Subjects

Social Science, Self Help, Biography

Updated

2026-03-24