Alcoholics Anonymous: Freed Slaves of Drink, Now They Free Others (Saturday Evening Post, March 1, 1941)
Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, 1941. Cover by Norman Rockwell. Magazine. Folio.
Original issue of The Saturday Evening Post containing the famous article on Alcoholics Anonymous by Jack Alexander. This publicity sparked the first major public interest in AA. Its publication generated some 6,000 inquiries to AA's headquarters, resulting in a four-fold increase in membership within a year.
This issue of The Saturday Evening Post is most important for Alexander's landmark AA article, but it also includes an article on Nazi Germany's economy by Peter F. Drucker, short stories by John Fante and MacKinlay Kantor, and the iconic cover illustration by Norman Rockwell.
Complete original magazine with saddle-stapled binding. Light wear to exterior, including a few edge bumps, shallow creases, light soil. Top fore corner is bumped, affecting first 11 page. Original mailing label affixed at top fore corner. Better than usual condition, very good to near fine overall.
Item #1704
Sold