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How AA got so BIG- Harry Anslinger, Marty Mann and Rockefeller money

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A one hour show to explore how and why AA got SO big- so ingrained in America, Media, Medicine - or not. How Marty Mann one of the first successful AA women, single handidly moved AA into some of the Biggest Magazines of her time (1940's)  How Marty Mann, a HIgh Society Woman Helped Bill Wilson meet the biggest players in American Business. How our first Drug Czar Harry Amngslinger- Arressted over 250,000 for writing scripts for heroin which was legal at the time.Harry Jacob Anslinger (May 20, 1892 – November 14, 1975) was a United States government official who served as the first commissioner of the U.S. Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He was a supporter of prohibition and the criminalization of drugs, and played a pivotal role in cannabis prohibition.     John D. Rockefeller helped Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson-by giving him $5,000 to print the First run of The Big Book. Not such a small giflt as one might think. More Facts about Rockefeller: As kerosene and gasoline grew in i