  Systematic analysis of the high recoil decay channels of the B-meson, two
body mesonic decay channels in particular. For decays involving D-mesons, all
experimentally observed rates are in reasonable accord with our calculations.
Noticeable corrections to heavy quark symmetry are found, appearing most
prominently when comparing D and D* decay modes. Calculated branching ratios
involving the CKM matrix element V_{ub} are all below experimental upper
bounds, but not markedly so. Calculated decay rates into charmonium lie a bit
on the low side. Where color-suppressed diagrams contribute, they are found to
be also suppressed dynamically and explicit calculation shows that the
color-suppressed diagrams are ignorable in B to D pi decays.
