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Baden-Powell: Founder of the Boy Scouts

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Baden-Powell: Founder of the Boy Scouts
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R.S.S. Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts movement in 1908, was a British military hero during the Boer War and an author, actor, artist, spy, sportsman, and female impersonator. In this absorbing and humane account of Baden-Powellâ‚¬s extraordinary life, Tim Jeal reveals for the first time the complex figure behind the saintly public mask, showing him to be a man of both dazzling talents and crippling secret fears.

Reviews of the earlier edition:

â€œBaden-Powellâ‚¬s life story is as rich and engrossing as any of his memorable campfire yarns . . . a monumental biography.â‚¬Â-Zara Steiner, New York Times Book Review

â€œIn an age of good biographies, here is one that deserves to be called great . . . a magnificent book.â‚¬Â-Piers Brendon, Mail on Sunday

â€œJealâ‚¬s Baden-Powell is brave and self-seeking, devious and honorable, a domestic paragon whose repressed homosexuality fired his career, a soldier of genius who ultimately rejected militarism. . . . The story that Tim Jeal has to tell is epic, funny, and touching.â‚¬Â-Philip Oakes, New Statesman

â€œSuperb.â‚¬Â-Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books
Country USA
Brand Yale University Press
Manufacturer Yale University Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780300125139
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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