glamorous, vivacious, and brilliantly captivating, Marty Mann changed fore the face of alcoholism in America. Tumbling from her place among the privile circles of New York City and Europe to the perilous Bowery, Mann became of the first female members of Alcoholics Anonymous. She later hecame one America's most important public-health policy reformers, and is credited u introducing the terms alcoholic and alcoholism into the standard lexicon, laying groundwork for treatment programs, reducing the stigma surrounding alcoholis and securing a place lor women in treatment and recovery.

ISBN: 9781592853076