Uncorrected Proof of Bill W. by Robert Thomsen - from 1975

This is the Uncorrected Proof of Bill W. by Robert Thomsen. This proof copy was sent out to Reviewers and friends of Robert Thomsen to return to him with any corrections to be made. Thomsen wrote on the first page of the book “Chaney Please Return”. There is an address label on the first page for Mr. Beverly Chaney. The First Printing of this book was published later in 1975. This was four years after Bill Wilson passed away.  Here is the “Brief Description” from the first page of this Proof Copy: “This superb human story sets forth the life of Bill Wilson, who died in 1971 and who was the cofounder but-essentially-the creator and godfather of Alcoholics Anonymous: his Vermont boyhood; his marvelous grandfather; his youthful marriage; success as a leader in World War I; his trying to ride the boom of the twenties (he had a marked talent for financial appraisal); his final collapse into absolute alcoholism, which brought him to the point-literally-of death; his vision of rescue-and-rede