William Schaberg's Writing The Big Book is an incredibly informative, in-depth history of how our fellowship's major text came to be written and published. It challenges some of our established ideas of early A.A. history. Here is Part One of a presentation by the author from the highly-recommended site RecoverySpeakers.com:

https://www.recoveryspeakers.com/writing-the-big-book-guest-speaker-william-schaberg-6-5-2020/