{"product_id":"9780300186727","title":"Baden-Powell: Founder of the Boy Scouts","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReviews of the earlier edition:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Baden-Powell’s life story is as rich and engrossing as any of his memorable campfire yarns . . . a monumental biography.”—Zara Steiner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“In an age of good biographies, here is one that deserves to be called great . . . a magnificent book.”—Piers Brendon, \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“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, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Superb.”—Ian Buruma, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116323848432,"sku":"9780300186727","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780300186727_p0.jpg?v=1763670220","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780300186727","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}