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The little-known life of Marty Mann rivals a Masterpiece Theatre drama. She was born into a life of wealth and privilege, sank to the lowest depths of poverty and despair, then rose to inspire thousands of others, especially women, to help themselves. The first woman to achieve long-term sobriety in Alcoholics Anonymous, Marty Mann advocated the understanding that alcoholism is an issue of public health, not morality. In their fascinating book, Sally and David Brown shed light on this influential figure in recovery history. Born in Chicago in 1905, Marty was favored with beauty, brains, charisma, phenomenal energy, and a powerful will. She could also out drink anyone in her group of social elites. When her father became penniless, she was forced into work, landed a lucrative public relations position, and a decade later was destitute because of her drinking. She was committed to a psychiatric center in 1938-a time when the term alcoholism was virtually unknown, the only known treatment was drying out, and two men were compiling the book Alcoholics Anonymous. Marty read it on the recommendation of psychiatrist Dr. Harry Tiebout: it was her first step toward sobriety and a long, illustrious career as founder of the National Council on Alcoholism, or NCA.In the early 1950s, journalist Edward R. Murrow selected Marty as one of the 10 greatest living Americans. Marty died of a stroke in 1980, shortly after addressing the AA international convention in New Orleans.This is a story of one womans indefatigable effort and indomitable spirit, compellingly told by Sally and David Brown.
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A BIOGRAPHY OF
Mrs.MARTY MANN
A BIOGRAPHY OF
Mrs.MARTY MANN
The First Lady to Alcholics Anonymous
SALLY BROWN AND DAVID R. BROWN
Hazelden Publishing
Center City, Minnesota 55012-0176
800-328-9000
hazelden.org/bookstore
2001 by Sally Brown and David R. Brown
All rights reserved. Published 2001
Printed in the United States of America
No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any manner without the written permission of the publisher
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, Sally, 1923
A biography of Mrs. Marty Mann : the first lady of Alcoholics Anonymous /
Sally Brown and David R. Brown.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 1-56838-626-5 (hardcover)
ISBN 1-59285-307-2 (softcover)
978-1-59285-307-6 (13-digit, softcover)
978-1-61649-141-3 (ebook)
1. Mann, Marty, 1904 2. Women alcoholicsUnited StatesBiography.
3. Alcoholics AnonymousHistory. 4. National Council on Alcoholism
History. I. Brown, David R., 1923 II. Title.
HV5293.M155 B76 2001
362.2986092dc21
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Interior design by Elizabeth Cleveland
Typesetting by Stanton Publication Services, Inc.
ADDICTION TO ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS continues to be a persistent public health threat. While weve come a long way in our scientific understanding of its complexity, one woman, in her wisdom more than fifty years ago, recognized that stigma would remain our most powerful foe when trying to influence public attitudes about a problem that too many people still consider to be moral, not medical. Her name was Marty Mann.
Through her work in educating the public and setting up local alcoholism information centers around the country, Marty helped shape the modern alcoholism movement. A visionary and a pioneer, she took on an unpopular cause during an era when women were supposed to remain silent. With her enormous public relations and communication skills, Marty began our long crusade to change the way America views those who are afflicted and affected by alcohol and other drugs. Yet very little has been written that tells of her life and courageous work.
This painstakingly researched biography finally gives Marty Mann her due place in history and proves how each of us owes this remarkable woman our gratitude. Sally and David Brown deserve our tremendous thanks for bringing out of the closet and into the light one of the twentieth centurys most fascinating American women.
STACIA MURPHY
President
National Council on Alcoholism
and Drug Dependence, Inc.
OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE DISEASE OF ADDICTION has markedly improved in the twenty years since Marty Mann died. Science is explaining how people become addicted. Pharmacology is coming up with new tools to improve outcomes. Treatment centers are meeting higher standards for licensing, and counselors are going back to school to improve their clinical skills. And hundreds of thousands of people and families are getting well and staying well.
Yet sadly, the shame and the stigma around addiction disease are stronger today than they were during the last years of Martys life. Ignorance, intolerance, and indifference still drive Americas so-called war on drugs. This national fight has cost billions upon billions of dollars and stuffed our prisons with inmates. It has polarized and paralyzed public policies so that our nation continues to do the same thing over and over again, with the same result. Supplies of legal and illegal drugs remain constant, as does the demand for them. If Marty were alive today, she would be disappointed that America is still stuck in the past on this issue.
But there are stirrings of changewhat I call the great awakening. And it is coming from people like Marty: alcoholics and addicts who have recovered. People who are now willing to stand up and speak out and share their firsthand experiences with addiction and with recovery. It is happening in places like Saint Paul and Dallas and Grand Rapids and Tallahasseein forums like state legislatures, news conferences, and community meetings.
In telling their stories, these individuals shatter the myths that only bad or evil or other people are vulnerable to addiction disease, and that nobody recovers. By putting a human face on recovery, they promote the reality that people from all walks of life can and do get well, if given the chance. When addiction is viewed this way, it is easier for the public and the policymakers to understand why America needs to stop fighting a war against people and start dealing with addiction disease as a public health crisis.
It is risky to share addiction and recovery with people who do not know or do not understand. The shame and the stigma are strong. But like Marty Mann, we are the fortunate ones, the ones who got well. And people in recovery have an opportunity, and a responsibility, to change the terms of the debate for the sake of those who still suffer. The risks are high. But so, too, are the rewards.
WILLIAM COPE MOYERS
Hazelden Foundation
Excerpts from Alex: The Life of Alexander Liberman by Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins, 1993 by Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins, are reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
The excerpt from Chicago is from Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg, copyright 1916 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston and renewed 1944 by Carl Sandburg, reprinted with permission of Harcourt, Inc.
Excerpts from the letters of Jane Bowles are reprinted from Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles 19351970 with the permission of Black Sparrow Press, 1985 by Paul Frederic Bowles.
Excerpts from The Dogs Bark: Public People and Public Places by Truman Capote (New York: Random House, 1973) are reprinted with permission of Random House, Inc.
The excerpts from the book Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age: A Brief History of A.A. and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous are reprinted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (AAWS). Permission to reprint these excerpts and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions does not mean that AAWS has reviewed or approved the contents of this publication, or that AAWS necessarily agrees with the views expressed herein. AA is a program of recovery from alcoholism onlyuse of the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions and these excerpts in connection with programs and activities which are patterned after AA, but which address other problems, or in any other non-AA context, does not imply otherwise.
WE HAVE BEEN TOUCHED and honored by the many, many people who contributed so unselfishly of their time, their records, and their goodwill. Like us, they believe Marty is the great unsung heroine of the alcoholism movement in this country, as well as the world, and that recognition of her contributions and accomplishments in the face of nearly insurmountable odds is long overdue. We would like to single out a few persons who were pivotal in our journey of discovery.
Barbara Brown Zikmund, D. Min., recent president of Hartford Seminary, planted the seed for Martys biography when she suggested many years ago that a seminary paper of Sallys might warrant book-length treatment.
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