Glenn F.
Chesnut, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History, renowned AA historian, founder
of the Hindsfoot Foundation (http://www.hindsfoot.org/), and Moderator of the leading
international webgroup for the study of Alcoholics Anonymous history and
archives at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/AAHistoryLovers/, has recently posted the final manuscript of his forthcoming book later this Fall titled, Father Ralph Pfau and the
Golden Books: The Path to Recovery from* Alcoholism and Drug
Addiction.
The subject
of this book, Father Ralph Pfau (1904 -1967) aka Father John Doe, is recognized
as the first Roman Catholic priest to become sober in Alcoholics Anonymous who
wrote multiple ”Golden Books” about recovery topics under his imprint of “Sons
of Matt Talbot Guild” in Indianapolis beginning in the early 1940's. These and Fr. Pfau’s major books (Sobriety and
Beyond and Sobriety Without End as well as his autobiography,
Prodigal Shepherd) are available at Hazelden Publishing
and other sites as are multiple presentations.
Among early AA
authors, according to Dr. Chesnut, Father Ralph Pfau was a strong supporter of
Matt Talbot as an example of how a spiritual triumph over alcoholism could be
accomplished.
For a PDF file of this final draft, go to http://hindsfoot.org/pfcath.pdf
For an MS Word file of the final draft, go to http://hindsfoot.org/pfcath.doc
For an MS Word file of the final draft, go to http://hindsfoot.org/pfcath.doc