Your Life: The Popular Guide to Desirable Living — April 1940 Featuring “A Miracle Cure for Drinkers” by William Moulton Marston

Your Life: The Popular Guide to Desirable Living — April 1940
Featuring “A Miracle Cure for Drinkers” by William Moulton Marston

Early Alcoholics Anonymous / Bill W. Article

Offered here is the April 1940 issue of Your Life: The Popular Guide to Desirable Living, featuring the rare and important article “A Miracle Cure for Drinkers” by William Moulton Marston.

Published very early in the history of Alcoholics Anonymous, this article tells the story of a troubled drinker who finds help through A.A. meetings and the guidance of the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W. For the purposes of the article, Bill is referred to under the pseudonym “Ed Carter,” making this a fascinating early public presentation of Bill’s story and the work of the young Fellowship.

The article describes the spiritual and practical elements that were helping alcoholics recover, including meetings, belief in a Higher Power, shared experience, and helping other sufferers. It also references the early New York A.A. group and reflects the way Alcoholics Anonymous was beginning to gain attention before becoming widely known through later national publicity.

This is an excellent and unusual early A.A.-related magazine article—especially desirable for collectors because of its early date, its connection to Bill W., and its appearance in a lesser-seen periodical outside the better-known mainstream A.A. articles of the era.

Condition

This magazine is in good condition overall with general aging wear. It is fully intact with no torn or missing pages.

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Collector's Significance

This is a very early A.A. public article from 1940, predating the famous 1941 Saturday Evening Post Jack Alexander article. It also directly tells Bill W.’s story under the pseudonym “Ed Carter”, references Towns Hospital, William James, the Oxford Group, A.A. meetings, and the early New York group.