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Baden-Powell - Jeal, Tim - Yale University Press
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August 2001
720 p., 5 x 7 3/4
30 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9780300091038
ISBN-10: 0300091036
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Baden-PowellFounder of the Boy Scouts
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Tim Jeal, with a new preface by the author
Out of Print.
Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post Book World
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-Powell’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:
“Baden-Powell’s life story is as rich and engrossing as any of his memorable campfire yarns . . . a monumental biography.”—Zara Steiner, New York Times Book Review
“In an age of good biographies, here is one that deserves to be called great . . . a magnificent book.”—Piers Brendon, Mail on Sunday
“Jeal’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.”—Philip Oakes, New Statesman
“Superb.”—Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books
Tim Jeal, a highly acclaimed biographer and novelist, is the author of Livingstone, also published by Yale University Press.
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