Baden-Powell by Tim Jeal
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
"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
Tim Jeal is a highly acclaimed biographer and novelist, and author of Livingstone (ISBN 0 300 09102 8, pb.), also published by Yale University Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300091038 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300091036 |
| Title | Baden-Powell |
| Author | Tim Jeal |
| Series | Yale Nota Bene |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2001-08-11 |
| Number of pages | 688 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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