BadenPowell Author: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 ma... more »sk, showing him to be a man of both dazzling talents and crippling secret fears.« less