{"product_id":"9780300125139-baden-powell","title":"Baden-Powell","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFounder of the Boy Scouts\u003cbr\u003eRSS Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts movement, was a British military hero during the Boer War and an author, actor, artist, spy, and sportsman. This work presents an account of Baden-Powell's life, revealing the complex figure behind the saintly public mask, showing him to be a man of both dazzling talents and crippling secret fears.\u003cbr\u003eR.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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57937687708022,"sku":"9780300125139","price":27.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780300125139-baden-powell","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}