BadenPowell Founder of the Boy Scouts Author:Tim Jeal R.S.S. 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. 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 bo... more »th dazzling talents and crippling secret fears.« less