The Agony of Alcoholism

and How I Overcame it

by Judge Bill C

Hard Back

Dust jacket included with archival plastic covering


Exposition Press Hicksville NY1979 1st Edition

fly leaf inscribed


"To my girl Mae

Who has lived through both my lives and know more of the truth of this book than any other person in the world with gratitude---Johnson


also has ex library sticker on front inside cover



Very Very interesting book about a former trial lawyer and then Judge who began to understand that his alcoholism was leading him to self destruction. It was at this point he went to his first meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous and began the struggle of self discover and sobriety

at 50 he had alcoholic convulsion and almost died



He does maintain his anonymity in the book but we know he was a judge up in the Northeast USA

This book is filled with real insight into AA and has a lot of details of what he learned in the many many meetings he attended


It is my understanding from my first browse through the book that the book was written when he had 20 years sober 1979
meaning he got sober in 1959



I wonder if he is still alive I would like to talk to him and meet him!!

I understand this book is fairly hard to find