Reviews for Ebby: The Man Who Sponsored Bill W.

The average rating for Ebby: The Man Who Sponsored Bill W. based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-06-13 00:00:00 Derek J. Patterson I enjoyed reading this from several points of view; of being a native of Akron, Ohio where AA was founded, as a counselor, and as a person who has seen AA succeed and seen it be less that successful. We so often have Bill W. touted as the poster child for AA because he was a "success". It is interesting to see that the man who led Bill W to the idea of AA through the Oxford Group was less successful and remained out of recovery more than he was in it. Ebby himself reminded me of a couple of addicts I have known. Perhaps, in time, having read this book will help me resolve my lingering issues with those people.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-24 00:00:00 Mark Norris A bittersweet read. Ebby, the man who originally carried the message to Bill W., was only able to put together about fifteen years of sobriety during the thirty-two years following his initial contact with the Oxford Group. But it was during his initial 2 1/2 years of sobriety that he carried the message to Bill, who would go on to become one of the co-founders of A.A. In his biography on Ebby, Mel B. said: "Whatever troubles Ebby had, he carried the right message to the right person at the right time. For that we should always be grateful'to Ebby as well as to the Higher Power that set all of this in motion."