Dr. Bob, Emmet Fox and Alcoholics Anonymous

"An account set forth in “Dr. Bob and the Good Oldtimers” tells of the influence of Emmet Fox and his classic work, “Sermon on the Mount.” An AA old-timer recollected: “The first thing he (Dr. Bob) did was to get Emmet Fox’s ‘Sermon on the Mount’….Once when I was working on a woman in Cleveland, I called and asked him what to do for someone who is going into DT’s. He told me to give her the medication and he said, ‘When she comes out of it and she decides she wants to be a different woman, get her Drummond’s ‘The Greatest Thing in the World.’ Tell her to read it through every day for thirty days and she’ll be a different woman.’ Those were the three main books at the time; that and ‘The Upper Room’ and ‘The Sermon on the Mount.’""

Source: Emmet Fox and Alcoholics Anonymous
By Igor S., Hartford, Conn. 
February 1996 AA Grapevine

Dr Bob's Recommended Reading

"I tried to read some of [Dr. Bob's] books," said [his son] Smitty, noting one titled Tertium Organum. "We have some others. There's The Varieties of Religious Experience. He loved that. Confessions of St. Augustine. The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas...For Sinners Only (a book about the Oxford Group), Basic Teachings of Confucius, Teach Us to Pray by Charles and Cora Fillmore and Prayer Can Change Your Life

"He recommended that I read The Art of Selfishness by David Seabury," said Betty Smith. 

"He also put a lot of stock in The Greatest Thing in the World, by Drummond," said Smitty.

Source: Dr Bob and the Good Oldtimers, page 310