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Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Cofounder
No man has affected more runners in more ways than Bill Bowerman During his 24-year tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon, he won four national team titles and his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. He also ignited the jogging boom, invented the waffle-sole running shoe that helped establish Nike, and coached the US track and field team at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games With the full cooperation of the Bowerman family and Nike, plus years of taped interviews with friends, relatives, students, and competitors, two-time Olympic marathoner Kenny Moore - himself one of Bowerman's champion athletes - brilliantly re-creates the legendary track coach's life. .
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Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder
During his tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon from 1949 through 1972, Bill Bowerman won 4 national team titles, trained dozens of milers to break the 4-minute barrier, and his athletes set 13 world and 22 American records. Single-handedly he helped turn the college town of Eugene, Oregon, into the running capital of the world.
In Bowerman: The Wings of Nike, Kenny Moore, a world-class marathon runner and one of Bowerman’s Oregon men, tells the story of his mentor and hero, drawing on years of taped interviews and the full cooperation of the Bowerman family and Nike, the company that Bowerman helped to found through his invention of the waffle-soled running shoe.
Whether providing a fresh look at the tragic siege at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, where Bowerman coached the track and field team; offering a close-up view of the coach’s relationship with runner Steve Prefontaine (subject of the movie Without Limits, co-written and co-produced by Moore); or exploring Bowerman’s role as a Nike innovator, this illuminating portrait is compelling reading throughout—ample evidence of why Bowerman’s widow, noting how well the author understood her husband, said: "If anyone should write Bill’s life story, it’s Kenny Moore."
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Bill W.: The absorbing and deeply moving life story of Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
This is the story of a man whose discovery and vision have changed the lives of millions of people throughout the world. Robert Thomsen's biography takes readers through the events of Bill W.'s life, all the while detailing Bill's growing dependence on alcohol. Thomsen writes of the collapse that brought Bill to the verge of death and of the luminous instant of insight that saved him. This turning point led Bill to the encounter in 1935 with Dr. Bob and the start of what was to be a new beginning for countless others who despaired of finding rescue and redemption. Every night at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings around the world, a speaker says, "Our stories disclose in a general way what we used to be like, what happened, and what we are like now." This describes the story of Bill W., a stirring spiritual odyssey through triumph, failure, and rebirth, with vital meaning for men and women everywhere..
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Bill W.: A Biography of Alcoholics Anonymous Cofounder Bill Wilson
When Bill Wilson, with his friend Dr. Bob Smith, founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935, his hope was that AA would become a safe haven for those who suffered from this disease Thirty years after his death, AA continues to help millions of alcoholics recover from what had been commonly regarded as a hopeless addiction. Still, while Wilson was a visionary for millions, he was no saint. After cofounding Alcoholics Anonymous, he stayed sober for over thirty-five years, helping countless thousands rebuild their lives. But at the same time, Wilson suffered form debilitating bouts of clinical depression, was a womanizer, and experimented with LSD.Francis Hartigan, the former secretary and confidant to Wilson's wife, Lois, has exhaustively researched his subject, writing with a complete insider's knowledge. Drawing on extensive interviews with Lois Wilson and scores of early members of AA, he fully explores Wilson's organizational genius, his devotion to the cause, and almost martyr-like selflessness. That Wilson, like all of us, had to struggle with his own personal demons makes this biography all the more moving and inspirational. Hartigan reveals the story of Wilson's life to be as humorous, horrific, and powerful as any of the AA vignettes told daily around the world. .
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Father Mac: The Life and Times of Ignatius D. McDermott, Co-Founder of Chicago's Famed Haymarket Center
'Father Mac' is the story of a humanitarian with a 'south-side-of-Chicago' Irishman's zest for wit, storytelling, politics, sports, and impatience with bureaucracy and slow moving progress, tied together with a compassionate, yet realistic, respect for human nature. Ordained a Roman Catholic priest in Chicago in 1936, Monsignor Ignatius McDermont is known as Father Mac be everyone from the Governor to the last street wanderer who stumbles into the famed Haymarket Center for alcohol and drug addiction haven he co-founded in 1976. In this story of selflessness and charity, you meet more characters than you can count, from colorful and fast moving Chicago politicians to incredible skid row success stories. Father Mac's sense for drama moved in to load up a bus with welfare babies he was treating, drive them to the state general assembly and literally place them into the arms of state representitives prior to their vote for or against an appropriation for their care. Illinois born Fulton Sheen once remarked, "America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. In the face of this broadmindedness, what the world needs now is intolerance." Thomas Roeser, a long time fixture in Chicago political commentary on radio and in print, has written a biography that captures McDermott at his best. Father Mac is man who is intolerant of heartlessness, cruelty, coldness, and selfishness. Intolerance with teh bureaucracy of government led from Chicago's West Madison Street to crusade for teh decriminalization of alcohol addiction. At an age when most men retire, Father Mac personally signed a one million dollar mortgage and co-founded what has become the finest facility to treat alcohol addictions, Haymarket Center. This book follows in the footsteps of other books on Chicago politics, but with emphasis on the charitable works of Father Mac. All proceeds from the sales of Father Mac go directly the McDermott Foundation and to saving the lives of alcohol addicted men and women at the Haymarket Center..
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The Lois Wilson Story: When Love is Not Enough: The Authorized Biography of the Cofounder of Al-Anon
A long-awaited look at the unsung story of Lois Wilson, wife of the famously anonymous Bill W. Acclaimed author and screenwriter William G. Borchert does a masterful job in revealing the life and times of this spirited and determined woman, exploring the tender emotional territory beyond Lois’s role in the formation of AA and the subsequent creation of Al-Anon. From her privileged childhood in turn-of-the-century New York City, to her unexpected but exhilarating courtship with the dashing Bill Wilson, to her socialite status as a "Wall Street Wife" in the Roaring Twenties, to the couple’s audacious cross-country motorcycle excursions in the 1930s, Lois was every bit the adventure-seeker her legendary husband was. But nothing could have prepared her for the chaos, pain, and loss caused by her beloved Bill’s seventeen-year descent into the depths of alcoholism. In the end, however, her husband’s addiction proved not to be the tragic undoing of this brilliant, promising couple, but rather the beginning of one of the twentieth century’s most important social movements. Features a 16-page section of black-and-white archival photographs. .
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