Ernest Kurtz has been the outstanding thinker of the A.A.
tradition's second generation, the one who played a constant
leadership role in pushing the movement towards the highest
professional standards of history writing and supplied some of its
most influential interpretive concepts. His ideas are vitally
important for anyone who wishes to understand A.A. history during
the period following Bill Wilson's death in 1971.
As a Ph.D. student at Harvard University in the 1970's, he was
the first researcher to be granted full access to the archives of
Alcoholics Anonymous. The book that resulted, "Not-God: A History
of Alcoholics Anonymous" (1979), is still the classic work on early
A.A. history. His book on the spiritual life-Ernest Kurtz and
Katherine Ketcham, "The Spirituality of Imperfection: Modern Wisdom
from Classic Stories" (1992)-is equally well known, and has also
been an enduring best seller through the years since it appeared.
His work on Shame & Guilt (orig. pub. 1981, rev. ed. 2007) has
given a whole new depth to the discussion of those two vital
recovery issues.
This present book, containing twelve key articles written by
Kurtz between 1982 and 1996, gives us a fourth volume from his
hand, displaying the impressive range and breadth of his thought on
alcoholism, addiction, and spirituality.
"Here under one cover is Kurtz at his best: historian, gadfly,
teacher, interpreter, and master storyteller . This is must reading
for any student of Alcoholics Anonymous and the evolution of
spirituality in America."
-William L. White, author of "Slaying the Dragon: The History of
Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America"
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