Building Character in the American Boy: The Boy Scouts, YMCA, and Their Forerunners, 1870-1920

by David MacLeod

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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.

Back in print; First paperback edition.

  • ISBN13 9780299094041
  • Publish Date 30 November 2004 (first published December 1983)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 464
  • Language English