70-year-old manuscript revealed; shows Christian references toned down. Sept. 24, 2010— -- For decades, addicts have adhered to Alcoholics Anonymous' 12 steps and the book that lays them out ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) has announced the publication of the Plain Language Big Book: A Tool for Reading Alcoholics Anonymous, a new resource designed to ...

For millions of addicts around the world, Alcoholics Anonymous’ basic text – informally known as the Big Book – is the Bible. And as they’re about to find out, the Bible was edited.

A collection of 19 first-edition copies of the founding document of Alcoholics Anonymous, known to adherents as the “Big Book,” will be auctioned off in Los Angeles next month.

Their express purpose was to spread the life-saving premises of Alcoholics Anonymous. The heart of the Big Book can be found in the first 164 pages, which outlines the now famous 12 steps of ...

No apostrophe in AA after all. Amazon’s first bookstore in New York City ... Lois Wilson, who gave him the book in 1978. The organization says that it was “expressly and irrevocably gifted” and is a ...