Our Great Responsibility

Our Great Responsibility: A Selection of Bill W.'s General Service Conference Talks, 1951-1970 gathers together sixteen addresses given by A.A's co-founder.

Made available in print form to readers everywhere for the first time, the talks in this volume culminate years of research and transcription of recordings.

Throughout this rich reading experience, we hear firsthand Bill's thoughts on the group conscience and the trusted servant; on the principles of A.A. service; on the relationship between principles and personalities; and even on the necessity to stand alone at times. We see, too, his willingness to entertain the broad, long view of Alcoholics Anonymous-open to change and growth-as in his 1952 talk: "The closing hours of this Conference bring with them a deep and joyous realization: the realization that, at last, we are surely on the high road that stretches straight out toward our future —toward, we trust, an everlasting sunrise."

Complementing the text are more than sixty archival photographs and other images from the General Service Office Archives-some never before published-as well as a concise history of the founding of A.A?'s critically important General Service Conference, the vehicle for its annual "group conscience."

Collected here, too, are Conference talks by Lois W., Bernard Smith and Dr. John Norris, nonalcoholic friends of A.A. instrumental in the history and development of the Fellowship.

Both timeless and timely, Our Great Responsibility captures Bill's innovative thinking on myriad A.A. themes, offering readers around the world a window into how Alcoholics Anonymous moves forward in unity.

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This is a preowned book but appears to have never been opened to be read and remains in very good condition.