Publisher's Synopsis
Provides a portrait of Dr. Bob, in the words of those who knew him. The youngster who grew up in Vermont of the late 19th century became a hard-drinking college boy, then a medical student fighting the onset of his own alcoholism, a respected physician, a loving but increasingly unreliable family man, and at last a desperately ill drunk, without hope until he met a stockbroker from New York - Bill W. - who urgently needed a fellow alcoholic to help him maintain his own sobriety.
