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Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920
Building Character in the American Boy The Boy Scouts YMCA and Their Forerunners 18701920
Author: David Macleod
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.
ISBN-13: 9780299094041
ISBN-10: 0299094049
Publication Date: 11/28/2004
Pages: 424
Edition: 1
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Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Book Type: Paperback
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