Dr. Bob, the Prince of All Twelfth Steppers : How A. A. 's Co-Founder Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith Personally Helped More Than 5,000 Alcoholics to be Cured

A long overdue complete and biography of A.A.'s Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith, affectionately called "Dr. Bob," Co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, and given the title (by his co-founder Bill Wilson) "the Prince of All Twelfth Steppers." This title highlights some vital recovery factors in Dr. Bob's life: (1) His excellent training in the Bible as a youngster. (2) The enormous influence on his later recovery ideas of St. Johnsbury, Vermont institutions--the North Congregational Church of St. Johnsbury, its Sunday School, and Christian Endeavor Society, Vermont Congregationalism and its Great Awakening, the prominent Fairbanks Family of St. Johnsbury, the YMCA, St. Johnsbury Academy, daily chapel, required church attendance, Bible study and prayer meetings, revivals, and Gospel meetings. (3) Dr. Bob's translation of all these factors into the simple early A.A. program in Akron which attained a documented 75 to 93% success rate among seemingly hopeless, medically incurable, real alcoholics who thoroughly followed the Akron path to a relationship with God. (4) The great significance of the efforts of Dr. Bob and his wife Anne Ripley Smith as they hospitalized newcomers, took them into their home on discharge, taught them Bible study, organized a Christian Fellowship, held old fashioned revival meetings, led newcomers to Christ as their Saviour, and emphasized love and service to others--a phrase from Dr. Bob's Christian Endeavor Society youth.B., Dick is the author of 'Dr. Bob, the Prince of All Twelfth Steppers : How A. A. 's Co-Founder Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith Personally Helped More Than 5,000 Alcoholics to be Cured', published 2007 under ISBN 9781885803849 and ISBN 1885803842.