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Paperback The Collected Ernie Kurtz Book

ISBN: 0595520995

ISBN13: 9780595520992

The Collected Ernie Kurtz

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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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lot of sylables but taken slowly>>>>>>>>>>>

If you want to learn about AA, spirituality and how things work for AA, this is the one. It is not a curl up and can't put it down type read, at least for me. But it is a book that can be read and digested a chapter at a time. The chapters are not long and there are pictures, but..... those pictures are pictures in your mind about the beginnings and the frailty of the human spirit that brought AA to this countryside. The differences Dr. Kurtz point out regarding religion and spirituality and the beginnings of this "phenomenon" called AA. "You can do somethings but you cant' do everything; you, alone can do it, you cant do it alone." Best definition of humility I ever heard.
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