Yes it does have this tone. It's not science. It was written in 1935 by Bill Wilson, a former stock market speculator and salesman. It's designed to be inspirational, as in, you may think you are a hopeless drunk, but I have a solution for you right here in this book. Give it a try.
Edit: Something not often discussed is that Bill Wilson was hoping to make money from this book, being dead broke in the middle of the Great Depression. The first people he helped sober up convinced him that he had to give it away freely.
Edit: Something not often discussed is that Bill Wilson was hoping to make money from this book, being dead broke in the middle of the Great Depression. The first people he helped sober up convinced him that he had to give it away freely.