Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-02
Books mentioned on Part One: Robert Baden-Powell: Founder Of The Boy Scouts
Robert is joined by Matt Lieb to discuss Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts of America. FOOTNOTES: https://time.
Robert Evans discussed Scout's Honor by Patrick Boyle, Aids To Scouting by Robert Baden-Powell, Aids to scouting for NCOs and men by Robert Baden-Powell, The birch bark roll of woodcraft by Ernest Thompson Seton, Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell, and Rovering to Success by Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Scout's Honor
Scout's Honor by Patrick Boyle is a critical 1994 academic study that investigates the history of sexual abuse and institutional cover-ups within the Boy Scouts organization.
Discussed“A write-up in the book Scouts Honor notes, "As an officer, he was known for his teaching skills, sense of discipline and obsession with physical and moral cleanliness."”
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Aids To Scouting
Discussed“In 1907, Baden-Powell rewrote Aids to Scouting for NCOs and Men, which he had originally written for soldiers to make it suitable for boys. Several of Baden-Powell's friends had been suggesting the rewrite as well as the creation of an outdoor boys club.”
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Aids to scouting for NCOs and men
Discussed“In 1907, Baden-Powell rewrote Aids to Scouting for NCOs and Men, which he had originally written for soldiers to make it suitable for boys. Several of Baden-Powell's friends had been suggesting the rewrite as well as the creation of an outdoor boys club.”
Where to get it
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The birch bark roll of woodcraft
Discussed“So he keeps doing it. And he eventually forms an organization that he called the Woodcraft Indians. This was so successful. It gets very popular. I think it was particularly in like the eastern chunk of the US that after a couple of years he writes a book called the Birch Bark Roll”
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Scouting for Boys
Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell is the classic 1908 handbook that laid the ideological and practical foundations for the worldwide Scouting movement.
Discussed“He took his strong feelings during this week as a sign that his new calling was to mentor boys. In 1908, he published his rewritten book as Scouting for Boys. And this included within it the Scout Oath, which is On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty for God and my country and to obey”
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Rovering to Success
Discussed“Rovering for to success, one of his books for boys, includes a chapter titled Women, in which he warns about the rutting season, that time when a boy is growing to manhood and finds himself obsessed by lust.”
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