Critical Praise for We Are Americans, We Are Scouts: Every American should read this collection of Theodore Roosevelt's thoughts. If every young person lived these principles, each of them would be highly successful and our nation would be a great deal stronger. ---Ross Perot
 I believe that We Are Americans, We Are Scouts will be a valuable resource in emphasizing and promoting the values of Scouting. ---James L. Tarr, Chief Scout Executive (Retired), Boy Scouts of America
 David C. Scott masterfully describes the Scouting way of life and connects it to the ideals of President Theodore Roosevelt, including the stewardship of our country's natural resources. This book demonstrates the need for the timeless values the Boy Scouts of America has to offer and its ability to transform young men into ethical, responsible leaders who understand the importance of serving others and strengthening our country. ---The Honorable Pete Sessions, House of Representatives
 David C. Scott has brought together the man and the birth of a movement whose ideals span the century between their times and ours. Indeed, this is the philosophy that gave rise to the Greatest Generation and can make each succeeding generation great. ---Judge Nathan E. White, Jr., President General, 2006 to 2007, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
 I truly wish I [could] place this book in the hands of every American young person between the ages of 10 and 18. ---Steve Van Buskirk, Youth and Special Projects, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
 What wonderful nuggets of Americanism, citizenship, patriotism, service, and duty to our God and country. ---Michael D. Buss, Assistant Director, Americanism and Children &amp; Youth Division, The American Legion
 We Are Americans, We Are Scouts embodies the principles of true Americanism, and a copy should be available in the library of every troop! ---Joe E. Harris, Jr., Executive Director, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
About We Are Americans, We Are Scouts
We Are Americans, We Are Scouts is a superb collection of carefully selected motivational anecdotes and quotations from Theodore Roosevelt, the first and only Chief Scout Citizen of the Boy Scouts of America. Using words and stories from Roosevelt's remarkable and influential life, Mr. Scott masterfully connects the wisdom, wit, and personal moral values of one of America's greatest presidents to the fundamental principles of Scouting.
We Are Americans, We Are Scouts is the perfect portable companion and reference book for Scouts, leaders, and speakers. It is for those wishing to rediscover and renew the Scouting spirit in all of us. This book is an outstanding personal and program resource for use in any setting to show and celebrate the significance of our national heritage and the timeless values of Scouting.

We Are Americans, We Are Scouts: The Chief Scout Citizen on Building a Scouting Way of Life

Children's Books

David C. Scott

Tweed Roosevelt (Foreword)

Biographies

Red Honor Press

In this brilliant and illuminating work, Dr. Edmonds has assembled the nation's religious leaders from every major world faith tradition, to celebrate the ideals of our Scouting heritage. In Our Own Way is an extraordinarily rich compilation of thoughtfully selected and specially written prayers from over 30 faith groups and denominations that embody Scouting's founding moral principles. It also includes an expansive collection of popular Scout prayers, graces, benedictions and other devotions chosen from historical and contemporary sources spanning a century of the Boy Scout movement. A must have inspirational handbook for every Scout and leader! In Our Own Way is an excellent personal companion and indispensable for use at pack and troop meetings, ceremonies and banquets, Courts of Honor, camps and outings, and leadership training programs. This remarkable treasury of prayers is an important and invaluable guide for anyone wanting to discover, embrace, and share a Scouting way of life enriched through faith, reverence, and devotion. About the Editor Robert Lee Edmonds is a veteran Scouting volunteer.

In Our Own Way: Living a Scouting Life Through Faith

Religion & Spirituality

Robert Lee Edmonds

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

Critical Praise for The Scouting Party''My cup-runneth-over with admiration for Scott and Murphy's The Scouting Party. The amount of primary research conducted by the authors is deeply impressive. But, even more importantly, they remind us that Boy Scouts has been a whooping one hundred year success. Consider this scholarly book a gift to America.'' --Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
''Be Prepared! David C. Scott and Brendan Murphy have unsheathed their machetes and blazed a trail through the thickets of the fierce (and strangely delicate) masculine ideals that created the Boy Scouts. The story, with its subtexts of Anglo-Saxon superiority, chivalry, clean living, and military preparedness, explains much about the rough-rider ethos of American life in the early twentieth century. And for their handling of the colossal egos at the center of the story, the authors deserve merit badges in humor and fair play.'' --Patricia O'Toole, author of When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House and The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends
''The Scouting Party is part history, part detective narrative as it uncovers and catalogues in rich detail the jealousies, intrigues, and earnest efforts of the men who created the Boy Scouts. Through careful research and vivid descriptions, Scott and Murphy have told a story that is fundamentally and uniquely American.'' --Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
''[The Scouting Party] makes the perfect gift for any Scouting enthusiast as the organization launches into its second century.'' --Scouting Magazine, Boy Scouts of America
''The Scouting Party brings Scouting's founders to life.'' --Eagle Scout Magazine, The National Eagle Scout Association, Boy Scouts of America
Product Description
Set in the Progressive Era so dominated by President Theodore Roosevelt, The Scouting Party tells the story of the strong-minded and at times conflicting individuals, including Roosevelt, who shaped the Boy Scouts of America as it was founded a century ago in 1910 and took shape within a few years.
The Scouting Party examines in particular the role of British-Canadian naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, whose trailblazing Woodcraft Indians strongly influenced the British founder of Scouting, General Robert Baden-Powell. Seton became the intellectual mainspring of the Boy Scouts of America in its formative years. But BSA organizers preferred Baden-Powell s more conventional model to Seton s vision of a youth movement based on the culture and values of the American Indian.
Seton, well known to Americans for his best-selling book, Wild Animals I Have Known, and his vivid lectures on wildlife, found himself increasingly at odds with BSA management between 1910 and 1915 over issues of organizational philosophy. He also clashed frequently with Dan Beard, an illustrator for Mark Twain and founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone, a rival to the Seton Indians, over precedence in the field. Seton and Beard both wrangled with BSA Executive Secretary James E. West, who arbitrated their frequent wrangles while keeping BSA solvent as the organization rapidly expanded.
The exuberant personality of U.S. senior statesman Theodore Roosevelt looms large throughout The Scouting Party as an influential early patron and at times critic of BSA as it embraced pacifism in the initial years of the First World War. Upon U.S. entry into the conflict in 1917, however, BSA threw itself behind the war effort, in the process becoming a quintessential American institution.

The Scouting Party: Pioneering and Preservation, Progressivism and Preparedness in the Making of the Boy Scouts of America

Biographies & Memoirs

Brendan Murphy

Historical

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