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In Bill W. and Mr.

Wilson, Matthew J. Raphael presents a revealing new look at both the legendary Bill W.

and the private Mr. Wilson, who tried to live apart from his own celebrity.

In quest of a more historically accurate and complete account, Raphael separates fact from fiction in the standard biographies of Wilson and finds reason to doubt the literal truth of some foundational A.A.

stories. He also provides a context for Wilson's (and thus A.

A.'s) key ideas in the work of William James, Carl Jung, and other modern thinkers.

What emerges is an unvarnished portrait of a charismatic man and social visionary, whose true greatness is all the more apparent in view of his human imperfections. Readers already familiar with Alcoholics Anonymous will find much to engage them.

Others will discover A.A.

and its cofounder from an insider's perspective. Matthew J Raphael has contributed to Bill W.

& Mr. Wilson as an author.

Raphael is a well-established writer and member of A.A.

William Griffith Wilson, recently cited by Time magazine as one of the hundred most influential individuals of the twentieth century, is better known to many as Bill W., cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

In Bill W. and Mr.

Wilson, Matthew J. Raphael presents a revealing new look at both the legendary Bill W.

and the private Mr. Wilson, who tried to live apart from his own celebrity.

In quest of a more historically accurate and complete account, Raphael separates fact from fiction in the standard biographies of Wilson and finds reason to doubt the literal truth of some foundational A.A.

stories. He also provides a context for Wilson's (and thus A.

A.'s) key ideas in the work of William James, Carl Jung, and other modern thinkers.

What emerges is an unvarnished portrait of a charismatic man and social visionary, whose true greatness is all the more apparent in view of his human imperfections. Readers already familiar with Alcoholics Anonymous will find much to engage them.

Others will discover A.A.

and its cofounder from an insider's perspective. Matthew J Raphael has contributed to Bill W.

& Mr. Wilson as an author.

Raphael is a well-established writer and member of A.A.

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In Bill W. and Mr.

Wilson, Matthew J. Raphael presents a revealing new look at both the legendary Bill W.

and the private Mr. Wilson, who tried to live apart from his own celebrity.

In quest of a more historically accurate and complete account, Raphael separates fact from fiction in the standard biographies of Wilson and finds reason to doubt the literal truth of some foundational A.A.

stories. He also provides a context for Wilson's (and thus A.

A.'s) key ideas in the work of William James, Carl Jung, and other modern thinkers.

What emerges is an unvarnished portrait of a charismatic man and social visionary, whose true greatness is all the more apparent in view of his human imperfections. Readers already familiar with Alcoholics Anonymous will find much to engage them.

Others will discover A.A.

and its cofounder from an insider's perspective. Matthew J Raphael has contributed to Bill W.

& Mr. Wilson as an author.

Raphael is a well-established writer and member of A.A.

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The award-winning author of God's Funeral explores the contradictions and improbabilities of the renowned novelist's character, using new close readings in Russian of much of his work and reexamining the historical context in which it was produced. Reprint (less)

Wilson's superb portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story - one which is still unfinished in our own day. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people.

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To recover anything like the full treasure of scat tered, wasted circumstance was at the same time to live over the spent experience itself, so deep and rich and rare 3 with whatever sadder and sorer i 2 A BOY intensities with whatever poorer and passages after the manner of every ones experi ence and the effect of this In was to dis crimination among the parts of my subject and again difficult - so inseparably and beauti fully they seemed to hang together the com prehensive case to decline mutilation or refuse to be treated otherwise than handsomely This meant that aspects began to multiply and images to swarm so far at least as they showed to appre ciation as true terms and happy values and that I might positively and exceedingly rejoice in my relation to most of them using itfor all that, as the phrase is, it should be worth To knock at the door of the past was in a word to see it open to me quite wide to see the world within begin to compose with a grace of its own round the primary figure see it people itself vividly and insistently Such then is the circle of my com memoration and so much these free and copious notes a labour of love and loyalty. We were to my sense the blest group of us, such a company of characters and such a picture of differences and withal so fused and united and interlocked, that each of us to that fond fancy pleads for pres ervation, and that in respect to what 1 of myself as possessing 1 think I shall be ashamed, as of a cold impiety, to find any element alto gether negligible.

To which 1 may add perhaps A 3 that I struggle under the drawback. Innate and inbred of seeing the whole content of memory and affection in each enacted and recovered moment, as who should say, in the vivid image and the very scene the light of the only terms in which life has treated me to experience.

And I cherish the moment and evoke the image and repaint the scene though meanwhile indeed scarce able to convey how prevailingly and almost exclusively, during years and years, the field was animated and the adventure conditioned for me by my brothers nearness and that play of genius in him of which 1 had never had a doubt from the first. The first then since I retrace our steps to the starts for the pleasure, strangely mixed though it be 5 of feeling our small feet plant themselves afresh and artlessly stumble forward again the first began long ago, far off, and yet glimmers at me there as out of a thin golden haze with all the charm for imagination andmemory, of pressing pursuit rewarded, of distinctness in the dimness, of the flush of life in the grey, of the wonder of consciousness in everything everything having naturally been all the while but the abject little matter of course (less)

The Christian Brothers, Their Origin and Work has Hardcover binding and this format has 300 number of pages of content for use. This book by R F Wilson is written in English language.

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Axis has Mass Market Paperbound binding and this format has 355 number of pages of content for use. This book by Robert Charles Wilson is written in English language.

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