The Big Book of Alcoholics anonymous is the basic text of our program.

The book, “Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions” was written 20 years later.

The “12 & 12” book acknowledges in it’s forward on page 17 near the end of the first paragraph, “The Book Alcoholics Anonymous became the basic text of the fellowship, and it still is. This present volume proposes to broaden and deepen the understanding of the Twelve Steps as first written in the earlier work.”