Signed by Charles Clapp Jr. - Drinking’s Not The Problem - 1949 - ODJ

Drinking’s Not The Problem by Charles Clapp Jr.

This is a special piece of history as it’s been inscribed and signed by the author Charles Clapp Jr.

The inscription reads:

”To Dorothy + John Paris(?) - With Best Wishes. Charles Clapp Jr. 11 Feb 1950.”

This is a first printing that was published in 1949. This book has the original dust jacket. This is a very rare and difficult book to find today!

This book was written with the purpose of educating and helping the “potential alcoholic”.

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“Almost everyone who drinks has wondered if he might "have trouble with liquor" at some future date. If you have the slightest question mark in your mind about your drinking, or are worried about a close friend or relative, you owe it to yourself to read this book.

It is the first book that's been written solely for potential alcoholics those men and women who might become alcoholics if... The answer to the "if" is not that threadbare bromide "never take another drink." But since most of today's potential and embryo alcoholics will join, to-morrow, the ever-swelling company of three million active alcoholics in this country, you should find out what the answer is.

Mr. Clapp writes in a completely down-to-earth style. He pulls no punches; nor does he offer any universal solution. He is a layman, but not only has he drawn on his own sources for his material, he has also obtained much data from all the prominent agencies in the field.

In this book you will find a very definite description of a potential alcoholic, and you will be able to judge for yourself if you have these basic characteristics. You will also find a definite plan by which many potential alcoholics can avoid their seemingly inevitable fate.

Here are some of the questions Mr. Clapp helps you answer:

Are you a potential alcoholic?

How did you get that way?

Why drinking is not your problem.

What faith can do and how to find it.

How new interests can help you.

How does a psychiatric team function?

What psychoanalysis can do.

This book is also for the potential alcoholic "repeaters," the men and women who have been active alcoholics and in some way have had their disease arrested, but are still unhappily seated on John Barleycorn's completely unpredictable vol-cano. For them Mr. Clapp has included complete descriptions of Alcoholics Anonymous and such clinics as the Yale Plan Clinic— how they operate, and who they can help.

This book will make sensible reading for anyone who thinks about drinking as he lifts a glass, and it may help to prevent a potential from suffering all the agonies of alcoholism. In the bargain, it will help him hold a mirror to himself and see where the problem really lies, what it is, and what he can do about it.“

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Charles Clapp was an Oxford Grouper, who AA founder Bill W had helped get sober in October of 1935. Clapp had been associated with Sam Shoemaker, but could not stay sober until he got help from Bill. Clapp was from Bedford Hills. Clapp is also the author of the books: “The Big Bender” and “Drunks are Square Pegs”.

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This book is in excellent condition with minimal wear. The inscription is on the first page and there is no writing or markings in the book. The original dust jacket is in excellent condition with only some minor edge wear and stains.

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