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Building
Character in the American Boy
The Boy Scouts, YMCA,
and Their Forerunners, 1870–1920
David I. Macleod
"A social history that goes well
beyond its immediate subject to be a contribution to our understanding
of turn-of-the-century education, male sex roles, and middle-class
development."—American
Journal of Education
Among established American institutions, few have been more
successful or paradoxical than the Boy Scouts of America. David
Macleod traces the social history of America in this scholarly
account of the origins of the Boy Scouts and other character-building
agencies, through which adults tried to restructure middle-class
boyhood.
David I. Macleod,
professor of history at Central Michigan University, was involved
with the Boy Scouts from ages eight through twenty. He is author
of The Age of the Child: Children in American 1890–1920.
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September 2004
LC: 83-047763 HS
404 pp. 6 x 9
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