The artwork layout for the dust jacket design is a green field representing Washington State´s color, wherein the WWA resides. The green field is superimposed on two underlying books: the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, which are represented by two rectangles outlined in white. There is a prominent 3.5" diameter circle on a field of lighter green in the center of the dust jacket field. This circle is dark at the top and radiates progressively widening rays of light toward the bottom of the circle. This is analogous to the alcoholic´s rather dark days when first entering the program of alcoholics anonymous, followed by progressing enlightenment - represented by the widening, all engulfing rays of light. Within the larger circle there are two additional circles. Each of the three circles represents the continuum - no beginning and no end - spirituality. The upper circle, within the circle, is AA ´s former logo representing ´Unity´, ´Recovery´ and ´Service.´ The lower circle, within the circle, radiates the golden glow of hope, cascading downward upon the countenance of the ´helpless, hopeless´ alcoholic. The alcoholic is depicted within the now famous work of art, "The Man on the Bed." * He is hearing for the first time, that there is hope and there is a way to stop drinking. The way? Alcoholics Anonymous!

* The "Man on the Bed"**, Bill D., was AA member number 3. At his death, he had not had a drink in more than nineteen years. His date of sobriety, June 26, 1935, was the day he entered Akron´s City Hospital for his last detox. Two days later occurred that fateful day when two sober alcoholics visited him: Dr. Bob Smith of Akron, Ohio, and Bill Wilson, a guest of Dr. Bob´s from New York.

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