Baden-Powell: Founder of the Boy Scouts (Yale Nota Bene) - Tapa blanda

"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 "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 "Superb." Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books

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. Selected as one of the best books of 1989 by the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post Book Review