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Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.), J.D. (Doctor of Jurisprudence, Stanford University), CDAAC
Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.), Quick Facts
Main Areas: Research, investigation, dissemination on the history and reasons for early A.A.'s successful reliance on God for cureBest Sellers: The Good Book and The Big Book: A.A.'s Roots in the Bible; The Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous: A Design for Living that Works; Anne Smith's Journal, 1933-1939; Dr. Bob's Library; Good Morning: Quiet Time, Morning Watch, Meditation, and Early A.A.; Turning Point: A History of Early A.A.'s Spiritual Roots and Successes; The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous; The Conversion of Bill W.
Career Focus: Author, Publisher, Speaker
Affiliation: America Historical Assn., Research Society on Alcoholism, Alcohol and Drugs History Society, Christian Association for Psychological Studies; Association for Medical and Educationa Research in Substance Abuse, Phi Beta Kappa, Freedom Ranch Maui Incorporated, Stanford Alumni Association, Good Book Publishing Company, Paradise Research Publications, Inc.l
Dick B. is the leading historian and writer on the history and roots of the Alcoholics Anonymous spritual program of recovery as founded and developed in Akron, Ohio in the period between 1935 and 1938. He has thoroughly researched and published on the fifteen major wellsprings of Alcoholics Anonymous. His 28 volume reference set titles are listed below. His work can be found in 33 published titles, over 170 articles, over 70 audio talks, and on various radio, podcast, and TV presentations. He has spoken all over the United States on this subject. He is a writer, historian, retired attorney, Bible student, and recovered alcoholic who has sponsored more than 100 men in their recovery. He has devoted 19 years of research to his topic. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a former Case and Legislation Editor of the Stanford Law Review. He holds an A.A. degree in Economics from University of California Berkeley and A.B. and J.D. degrees from Stanford University. He is a member of numerous professional historical and recovery societies.
Alcoholics Anonymous History
© 2008. Dick B. All rights reserved.
Dick B.’s Twenty-eight Volume Comprehensive A.A. History Set
The Origins of Alcoholics Anonymous
Introduction to the Sources and Founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Real Twelve Step Fellowship History
The Conversion of Bill W.
Dr. Bob and His Library.
Dr, Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His Excellent Bible Training as a Youngster
Henrietta B. Seiberling: Ohio’s Lady with a Cause
The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous
Turning Point: A History of the Spiritual Roots and Successes of Early A.A.
Major Contributing Factors in the Program
The Good Book and The Big Book: A.A.’s Roots in the Bible.
Anne Smith’s Journal, 1933-1939
The Books Early AAs Read for Spiritual Growth
Good Morning: Quiet Time, Morning Watch, Meditation in Alcoholics Anonymous The Golden Text of Alcoholics Anonymous
The Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous
New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and A.A.
Elements of the Documented 75% to 93% Cure Rates in the Early A.A. Program
Why Early A.A. Succeeded
Cured: Proven Help for Alcoholics and Addicts
God and Alcoholism: The Twenty-first Century Challenge
The James Club and the Original A.A. Program’s Absolute Essentials
The First Nationwide A.A. History Conference.
Making Known the Biblical History of Early A.A.
How to Apply Early A.A. Principles for Deliverance in Today’s Fellowships
By the Power of God
Utilizing Early A.A.’s Spiritual Roots for Recovery Today
When Early AAs Were Cured and Why
A New Way In
A New Way Out
Twelve Steps for You
The Good Book-Big Book Guidebook
All 28 volumes sell at the discounted price of $400.00, including U.S. s & h.
Other Programs & Highlights
MORE ABOUT DICK B.: Dick B. is the leading writer and historian on Alcoholics Anonymous History, Spiritual Roots, and Successes. He is a retired attorney, Bible student, and active, recovered member of the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. He has published 33 historical titles, has a 29 volume reference set on the comprehensive history and its segments, has published over 170 articles--most of which can be found posted on the internet and on his own website. Of late, he has produced over 70 audio blogs with about an hour presentation on each of the historical subjects. He is now featured on several regular radio shows, principal among which is Take12Radio. His talks are also available on the Just For Today podcasts, the Came to Believe website, Last Call Radio Show, and also on community tevlevision in the Hawaiian Islands. Dick has spoken at seminars, panels, conferences, and recovery meetings all over the United States. He has been a frequent weekend teacher at Bill Wilson's birthplace, The Wilson House, in East Dorset, Vermong--producing over 8 heritage seminar presentations. Gathering materials from archives, libraries, A.A. groups, survivors, scholars, and historians, Dick has devoted 19 of his 22 plus years of sobriety to unearthing, investigating, analyzing, reporting, publishing, and disseminating full, complete, and accurate information about all sixteen of the major A.A. Wellsprings. His purpose is primarily to glorify and serve our Creator. Also to show the role of the Creator yesterday and today. Also to make known the real Biblical roots and sources of the early A.A. Christian Fellowship in Akron. And finally, to show precisely how the A.A. pioneers achieved their documented seventy-five to ninety-three percent success rate amongst seemingly hopeles, medically incurable, real alcoholics who thoroughly followed the early A.A. path of reliance on the Creator, abstinence and resisting temptation, obeying God's will by walking in love and eliminating sinful conduct, growing in fellowship with the Creator and His son by prayer and Bible study and seeking guidance, and then devoting themselves to helping others get straight and be cured of alcoholism.
SPECIFIC ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES ABOUT DICK B.'S WORKS:
To our inquirers: Thanks so much for requesting information about Dick B.’s books, articles, and talks. To see picture covers of the books and descriptive information, please go to my titles pages (http://www.dickb.com/titles.shtml). To order, you will find the fastest service by going to my order page (http://www.dickb.com/orders.shtml); Amazon.com (books), and searching it by title, or author Dick B., or ISBN. To order a box of 40 same-title books at the discounted price of $400.00 per box, contact or write Dick B. providing your name, mail address, phone, check or credit card # and expiration date. To resolve any difficulties, please contact Dick B. at dickb@dickb.com. God Bless, Dick B.
A.A. HISTORY TITLES, REFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS BY DICK B.
Current List of 28-Title Reference Set
(Available as Individual Titles or as a Set)
Anne Smith's Journal, 1933-1939: A.A.'s
Principles of Success, 3rd ed.
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[Invaluable notes of the early Akron A.A. program, kept by Dr. Bob’s wife, Anne Smith -shared with AAs & families. Foreword by Robert R. Smith, son of Dr. Bob & Anne Smith; co-author, Children of the Healer].
By the Power of God: A Guide to Forming and Conducting Early A.A. Groups
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[A guide to your organizing and conducting 12 Step groups that wish to rely on the Creator and study the Good Book. foreword by Ozzie Lepper, resident/Managing Director, The Wilson House (birthplace of Bill W.)].
The First Nationwide Alcoholics Anonymous History Conference: The Comments of Dick B.
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[Setting the stage for what have become large assemblies of A.A. history lovers who want the facts about A.A., Dick B. was the principal speaker for several hours at Phoenix. He was joined by Dr. Bob son and the Archivist at Dr. Bob’s Home to round out the picture].
Cured!: Proven Help for Alcoholics and Addicts
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For more than a decade, the earliest AAs (and their founders) all announced they were cured of alcoholism. Here’s how and why! Foreword by Robert P. Turner, M.D., Medical Director, Medical University of South Carolina Clinical Neurophysiology].
Dr. Bob and His Library: A Major A.A. Spiritual Source, 3rd ed.
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[No greater understanding of early A.A. is possible than That which comes from knowing what Dr. Bob read. Foreword by Ernest Kurtz, Ph.D., Author].
God and Alcoholism: Our Growing Opportunity in the 21st Century
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[Dick B. ventures into the topical and shows how A.A. First contributed “God” and later (unfortunately)some idolatrous “gods” to the spiritual recovery ideas and talk of yesterday and today. Endorsed by Rev. Howard J. Clinebell, Ph.D., Author; Professor of Theology Emeritus, Claremont].
Good Morning! Quiet Time, Morning Watch, Meditation, and Early A.A., 2nd ed.
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[An accurate historical study and guide to your own Quiet Time, using AAs’ Bible study, prayer, guidance, and devotionals].
Henrietta B. Seiberling – Ohio’s Lady With a Cause, 2nd ed.
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[Giving belated recognition to Mrs. Seiberling for her part in relying on prayer and the Creator to bring A.A.’s founders together].
Making Known the Biblical History and Roots of A.A.
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[The largest known bibliography of all the books and materials relevant to A.A.’s history and roots and used by author Dick B. in his research, and included in his 23,900 item collection of historical materials on A.A.]
New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker, and A.A., 2d ed.
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[A huge study of the books, articles, talks, and role of Rev. Sam Shoemaker in A.A.. Bill Wilson dubbed Sam a “co-founder of A.A.” Forewords by Nickie Shoemaker Haggart, daughter of Rev. Sam Shoemaker; Julia Harris, and Karen Plavan, Ph.D.]
That Amazing Grace: The Role of Clarence and Grace S. in A.A.
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[Venerable AA Clarence Snyder taught his wife Grace The Original A.A. program, and Grace carried the torch later. This is their story. Foreword by Harold E. Hughes, former U.S. Senator from, and Governor of Iowa, and founder of S.O.A.R.
The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous, 2nd ed.
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[A landmark story of the Akron beginnings of A.A. and its program -from the Firestones in ’31 to Pioneers in ’38. Foreword by former U.S. Congressman John F. Seiberling, Son of A.A.’s Henrietta B. Seiberling]
The Books Early AAs Read for Spiritual Growth, 7th ed.
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[You won’t get the early A.A. spiritual picture without knowing the variety of books early AAs studied on Prayer, healing, life-change, Bible, guidance, love. Foreword by former U.S. Congressman John F. Seiberling of Akron, Ohio, son of Henrietta Seiberling, an A.A. founder].
The Golden Text of A.A.: Early A.A., God, and Real Spirituality
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[Documented account of how Bill W., Dr. Bob, and AA #3 (Bill D.) all said they were cured of alcoholism by the Lord. Bill D. called that cure by the Lord “The Golden Text of A.A.” Here is the real conversion message carried by Bill W. in his own words in the early Akron days].
The Good Book and The Big Book: A.A.'s Roots in the Bible, 2d ed.
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The most popular and most frequently ordered book ever published by Dick B. because it shows, item by item, A.A.’s roots in the Holy Bible. Foreword by Robert R. Smith, son of Dr. Bob & Anne Smith; co-author, Children of the Healer].
The Good Book-Big Book Guidebook
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[Specially written and crafted to meet the increasing demands for A.A. history study, Big Book/Bible Study, Step and Bible Studies, and others wishing guidance as to how to conduct, purchase materials for, and lead the growing number of “James Club” students of Old School A.A.
The James Club and the Original A.A. Program’s Absolute Essentials, 4th ed.
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[The most clear, useful, and important study in existence of exactly what early AAs studied in the Book of James, the Sermon on Mount and 1 Corinthians 13, and considered “absolutely essential,” according to co-founder Dr. Bob].
The Oxford Group & Alcoholics Anonymous: A Design for Living that Works, 2nd ed.
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[The first truly scholarly and accurate report on what the Oxford Group was, and the many ideas and words A.A. borrowed from them. Outstanding! It is one of its kind. Foreword by T. Willard Hunter, author, orator, Oxford Group activist in the 1930’s and 1940’s].
Turning Point: A History of Early A.A.’s Spiritual Roots and Successes
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[Dick B.’s “magnum opus” on early A.A. roots. The most recent, complete, and comprehensive reference book on the Spiritual roots, history, and successes of early A.A. Foreword by Paul Wood, Ph.D., President, National
Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc].
Twelve Steps for You: Take the Twelve Steps with the Big Book, A.A. History, and the Good Book at Your Side
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[The first Twelve Step study of its kind, simply laying out the specific contribution of each of A.A.’s roots to each of the Steps, i.e. Bible, Anne Smith, Shoemaker, Oxford Group, Quiet Time, Literature. Step by Step. A real spiritual tool that gives you real spiritual understanding of each Step]
Utilizing Early A.A.’s Spiritual Roots for Recovery Today
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Dick B.’s seminar at the Wilson House showing how to pull all A.A.’s spiritual roots into the recovery arena today].
When Early A.A.’s Were Cured and Why
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[This is a truly astonishing report on and revelation of the real A.A. of yesterday in Akron, with its roots in The United Christian Endeavor Society and Dr. Bob’s excellent training in the Bible as a youngster, and its successes through reliance on the Creator. This is an extensive study of God’s Power to heal and cure and exactly how early A.A.’s established their relationship with God and utilized God’s Power].
Why Early A.A. Succeeded: The Good Book in A.A. Yesterday and Today
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[A Bible study primer which enables AAs and 12 Steppers to study the Good Book the way their founders did. Foreword by Jeffrey H. Boyd, M.D., M.Div., M.P.H., Chairman of Psychiatry, Waterbury Hospital, Waterbury, CT]
Real Twelve Step Fellowship History
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[You really don’t know A.A. history unless you learn the twists and turns that went into its founding and development: Bill W. and his conversion experiences on the East Coast; Dr. Bob and his Bible training as a youngster in St. Johnsbury, Vermont; the early forms and derivations of the Akron Christian Fellowship program; the writing of the Big Book; and the enormous changes that occurred thereafter in Bill’s period of great depression from the 1940’s to mid 1950’s].
A New Way In: Telling the Truth
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[Do 12 Step people continue to be intimidated by the harsh remarks against God, Christianity, Church, religion, and Jesus; or is there a way for them to walk through the atheist and idolatrous criticisms of A.A. on the one side and the religious and clerical aversion to A.A. higher power nonsense on the other. Yes there is. And this book tells you how].
A New Way Out
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[Is there a way to allow the AA entrapped in the unbelieving condemnations on the one hand and the religious condemnations on the other; to stay in a Twelve Steps Fellowship, partake of and share its benefits; and still walk through the talk of nonsense gods, idolatry, illusory spirituality, and condemnation of religion and emerge into an abundant life as a child of the one true living God. Yes there is. And this book tells you how].
The Conversion of Bill W.: More on the Creator’s Role in Early A.A.
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[Today’s
recovery community is enmeshed in the confusing maze of cure and no cure,
religion and no belief, spirituality and real Biblical truth, and the one true
living God and the nonsense higher powers of the light bulb variety. Knowledge
of Bill W.’s convictions about conversion, derived from his grandfather
Willie’s conversion and cure of alcoholism, the advice of Dr. Silkworth about
the “Great Physician,” Ebby’s witnessing about the Rescue Mission, Bill’s
conversion at the Calvary Rescue Mission altar, and Bill’s conversion
experience and cure at Towns Hospital will set you on your feet when you are called
to stand for truth instead of fantasy in meetings and literature today].
Introduction to the Sources and Founding
of Alcoholics Anonymous
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[For several years, Dick has urged AAs, 12 Step people, clergy, treatment people, recovery centers, historians, and Christians to include a segment of A.A. history at the beginning of their efforts. Here is a short, simple, compelling way to teach it and learn it].
The New Dr. Bob Titles: Works Now in Progress
Dr. Bob and Alcoholics Anonymous: His Excellent Training in the Good Book as a Youngster in Vermont – Dr. Bob’s upbringing, and the family and community influences in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, that were transmitted to A.A. NOW AVAILABLE BY ORDER ONLINE OR DIRECT - $24.95.
The Dr. Bob Resource Volumes – Some twenty binders containing specific data on Dr. Bob’s youth: Family, church, Sunday school, prayer meetings, Bible study, conversions, revivals, Christian Endeavor Society, YMCA, St. Johnsbury Academy, the “Great Awakening,” and the extraordinary Fairchild family contributions and examples – These will probably only be available at North Congregational Church (UCC)in St. Johnsbury, Vermont in the Dr. Bob Core Library there.
St Johnsbury, Vermont as Dr. Bob Knew It (an annotated picture book walk-through guide showing the historical places of Dr. Bob's youth and what those places contained that impacted on his spiritual life and training.
The Prince of All Twelfth Steppers: A Biography of A.A’s Cofounder, Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith – a biography of his life, beliefs, activities, convictions, principles, and practices as they relate to his role as co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Other Dick B. Historical Materials
From other publishers or distributors:
Courage to Change by Bill Pittman and Dick B. – Hazelden
Women Pioneers –
Dick’s chapter on Henrietta Seiberling and data on Geraldine Delaney – Hazelden
Our Faith Legacy, by Three Clarence Snyder A.A. Sponsees – compiled and edited by Dick B. – Came to Believe Publications.
Hope: The Story of Geraldine Owen Delaney – Alina Lodge
Free historical materials:
Dick B. Articles – posted on several of his, as well as, many other sites
Dick B. Blog – http://www.dickb-blog.com
Dick B. Audio Recordings – his blog site, several podcasts, http://DrBob.info (soon)
Dick B. Radio Presentations – Take 12 Radio
Catalogs - by email auto-responder from http://www.dickb.com/index.shtmlContact Dick B. at dickb@dickb.com; PO Box 837, Kihei, HI 96753-0837; or 808 874 4876
Gloria Deo
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Richard Burns, J.D. (pen name Dick B.),
"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." Matthew 6:33
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh to the Father, but by me." John 14:6.
"Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." James 1:22
"The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." James 5:16
"God is love." 1 John 4:8, 16
"Bless the LORD O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction. Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies." Psalm 103: 2-4
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." Proverbs 3:5-6
"There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shall thou worship any strange god." Psalm 81:9
"And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." 1 John 5: 14-15
"And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight." 1 John 3: 22.
"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw night to you. Cleanse yoru hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded. . . . Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." James 4:7-8, 10.
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