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An Alcoholic to His Sons
As Told to Henry Beetle hough
Hardback
No Dust Cover
246 pages
Photos of Book (left) are photos of book being sold
Except Photo 3 title page
Book being sold has no writing on title page or covers
Simon and Schuster NY NY 1954
first edition
dedicated to the Martha's Vinyard Group
OF Alcoholics Anonymous
Hough was editor and publisher of the newspaper in Marthas Vinyard
from a well to do New England Family
in this very hard to find book
he tells his story of alcoholism and coming to Alcoholics Anonymous
chapters include
Foreward
The Why of These Pages
Introduction to Alcoholism
An Unseen Stranger in My House
It Wasn't So Good For Business
I Like It too Well to Fool With It
25 years with Alcohol
The Turn of the Road
All the Lost Companions
What To do About It
A Final Word to My Sons
THIS IS THE COMPLETELY
CANDID CONFESSIONAL...
This is the completely candid
confessional history of a compulsive drinker, addressed to his sons. It
covers every aspect of a key problem in our society. How does an
intelligent, successful man let himself slip down the inclined plane
which leads to helpless alcoholism? What are his rationalizations? How
does he slide from the occasional drink to the occasional drunkenness,
from the social cocktail to secret drinking, to lying, to eventual
mindless incompetence? What are the danger signals along the way and
what are the possibilities of cure?
Each on of these questions is
taken up frankly in this book. It is a fascinating story, one of
degradation and eventual regeneration. Its sheer readability will
attract many - the story it tells should help many more
HIS IS THE COMPLETELY CANDID CONFESSIONAL...
Topics Include:
The WHY of These Pages
Introduction to Alcoholism
An Unseen Stranger in My House
It Wasn't So Good for Business
I Like It Too Well to Fool with It
Twenty-five Years with Alcohol
The Turn of the Road
All the Lost Companions
What to Do About It
A Final Word to My Sons
Author:Henry Beetle Hough
Illustrator: none
Publisher/Date: Good Reading Rack Service 1954.
Format/Condition: 11 page booklet in mint condition.
Description: This booklet is based on a chapter from
Mr. Hough's book An Alcoholic to his Sons, which
offers definite warning signals for the social drinker. For those
who may find from reading this that they have alcoholic
tendencies, there is included a general summary of the activities
of Alcoholics Anonymous. |
June 17, 1985
Milestones
DIED. Henry Beetle Hough, 88, journalist, author and
environmental conscience who owned, edited and published the Vineyard
Gazette, one of America's best country weeklies, from 1920 to 1968 and
continued as its editor almost until his death; in Edgartown, Mass., on
the offshore island of Martha's Vineyard. Hough's often poetic
descriptions of everyday island events and the passing seasons, and his
fervent quest to protect the Vineyard from mindless development, brought
a steady growth in readership, while his popular book Country Editor
(1940), followed by 21 novels, histories, children's tales
and...continued time magazine wanted me to pay to get the rest of this
obit.
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