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Author: Alvin Townley Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312539337 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 324
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"Legacy of Honor" takes a revealing look at how Eagle Scouts--including Michael Bloomberg, Ross Perot, and Apollo 13's Jim Lovell--have shaped American history and culture.
Author: Alvin Townley Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312539337 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
"Legacy of Honor" takes a revealing look at how Eagle Scouts--including Michael Bloomberg, Ross Perot, and Apollo 13's Jim Lovell--have shaped American history and culture.
Author: Alvin Townley Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429937319 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 317
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An extraordinary journey alongside America's new generation of Eagle Scouts, who are discovering their purpose and bringing the values of Scouting to the world. Over the past century, Scouts have helped to guide the course of American history. But what does Scouting and the Eagle badge mean to the Scouts of today? How will they shape the future of Scouting and America itself? In Spirit of Adventure, Scouting expert and Eagle Scout Alvin Townley finds the answer. Townley traveled across the country and to the far corners of the globe to meet these young Eagle Scouts. He found them everywhere, continuing the life of adventure and service that they had begun in Scouting. He discovered them in Afghanistan providing medical care to villagers, in Australia saving coral reefs, at the Super Bowl and Olympic venues striving for victory, on desert cliffs and at inner-city schools teaching new lessons, in Africa bringing hope to children, and on the windswept deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz preparing for takeoff. Whether doctors, activists, servicemen, entrepreneurs, or teachers, these young men are changing the world through bold actions that capture the essence of the Scouting tradition. In Spirit of Adventure, Townley answers important questions about the future of Scouting and America, while revealing stories of service, courage, and pure excitement that introduce our nation to an inspiring new generation of leaders.
Author: Terry Grove Publisher: ISBN: 9781087291420 Category : Languages : en Pages : 119
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The Eagle Scout Award has been a center piece of scouting since Ernest Thompson Seton first suggested it as the highest award in the scouting program in 1911. This book is more than a showcase for Eagle Scout memorabilia - medals, patches, and pins. It is a history book that will provide the reader with information about the beginnings of the award, some of the very first Eagle Scouts, the ways that the medals and patches were manufactured and by whom. The photos show every Eagle medal made and details of each not only the medals but the cloth badges.
Author: Robert Birkby Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) ISBN: 9780756697716 Category : Decorations of honor Languages : en Pages : 0
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In a celebration of the most elite Boy Scout rank, this book combines original stories from current and past Eagle Scouts, as well as information on the history of the rank, its awards, and famous Eagle Scouts.
Author: DK Publishing Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) ISBN: 9780756672270 Category : Boy Scouts Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book is illustrated with full-color photographs and memorabilia items and the captures the adventure and spirit of the United States' largest youth organization.
Author: Robert Macdonald Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442613130 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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In Sons of the Empire, Robert MacDonald explores popular ideas and myths in Edwardian Britain, their use by Baden-Powell, and their influence on the Boy Scout movement. In particular, he analyses the model of masculinity provided by the imperial frontier, the view that life in younger, far-flung parts of the empire was stronger, less degenerate than in Britain. The stereotypical adventurer - the frontiersman - provided an alternative ethic to British society. The best known example of it at the time was Baden-Powell himself, a war scout, the Hero of Mafeking in the South African war, and one of the first cult heroes to be created by the modern media. When Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts in 1908, he used both the power of the frontier myth and his own legend as a hero to galvanize the movement. The glamour of war scouting was hard to resist, its adventures a seductive invitation to the first recruits. But Baden-Powell had a serious educational program in mind: Boy Scouts were to be trained in good citizenship. MacDonald documents his study with a wide range of contemporary sources, from newspapers to military memoirs. Exploring the genesis of an imperial institution through its own texts, he brings new insight into the Edwardian age.
Author: Michael S. Malone Publisher: Brown Books Publishing Group ISBN: 9780985909772 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 384
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Running Toward Danger is the first book that tells the extraordinary saga of Scouting's Honor Medal recipients ― and how the award itself transformed American life. It is the product of extensive original research into the BSA's national archives, vintage newspaper accounts, and interviews of recent recipients. The narrative includes more than 150 accounts of the most remarkable ― and hair-raising ― Honor Medal rescues of the last century. Also, it uncovers the crisis in the early days of the award that ultimately changed the direction of Scouting and brought intensive first aid, lifesaving, and safety training to the nation's youth. Running Toward Danger is filled with extraordinary characters. First among equals is the buckskinned sophisticate, co-founder of Scouting, and friend of U.S. presidents, Daniel Carter Beard, who created the Honor Medal ― and then nearly drove it to disaster. But there also are hundreds of young men and women who find themselves in the most terrifying situations imaginable, fly into action, and not only to survive but also to save others in the process. It is a narrative that swings from a lonely, lightning-scorched mountain top to an isolated farmhouse, to crowded urban neighborhoods, to shark-filled waters ― each story presenting its own dangers that demands a clear-minded and smart strategy, requiring an abundance of bravery from its young rescuers.For Scouts and their families these stories are the best lesson imaginable on what makes Scouting great ― and what the character-building training programs of the Boy Scouts of America develop in young people. But this also is a book for all Americans that celebrates the courage and resourcefulness of our nation's youth. You never will forget these remarkable stories of young people who, when met with the ultimate challenge, don't hesitate to run toward danger to help others.
Author: Alvin Townley
Author: Alvin Townley
Author: Alvin Townley
Author: Mark A. Ray
Author: Terry Grove
Author: Terry Grove
Author: Robert Birkby
Author: Robert Birkby
Author: DK Publishing
Author: Robert Macdonald
Author: Michael S. Malone