Marty Mann Answers Your Questions About Drinking and Alcoholism
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Hardcover. Later printing. Mann was the most visible female A.A. member in the earliest days of the fellowship's founding and is considered by some to be the first woman with long term sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous. Mann wrote the chapter Women Suffer Too in the second through fourth editions of the Big Book of AA. In 1944, she founded The National Council on Alcoholism and traveled across the U.S. educating medical professionals legislators, businessmen and the public to the importance of treatment and education of the fatal disease of alcoholism. In 1976 the NCOA organized Operation Understanding where 50 celebrities and professionals gathered to address the social stigma surrounding alcoholism. Actors, politicians, sports legends, physicians, lawyers, clergy and more stood up in the hotel ballroom and said I am an alcoholic. The NCOA hoped to reduce the social stigma surrounding alcoholism and encourage individuals and their family to get treatment. Through her life in recovery, Mann hoped to raise social awareness that alcoholism is not a moral weakness but a deadly disease. Some age toning to pages. Very Good / Very Good. Item #200607
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