 In "Baden-Powell" (1989), Jeal offers a revisionist account of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, restoring his reputation which had deteriorated during the 20th century.However, Jeal also speculated that Powell was a homosexual, even a repressed one, and this sparked a great deal of attention in the popular press culminating in scouting organizations reissuing an earlier biography of Powell by William Hillcourt to dilute attention and sales of Jeal's book.In 1995 Jeal's book was the basis for a TV documentary in the Channel 4 series "Secret Lives" entitled "Lord Baden-Powell