 
Bushido: The Soul of Japan written by Inazo Nitobe 
is, along with the classic text Hagakure by Tsunetomo Yamamoto, a study 
of the way of the samurai. A best-seller in its day, it was read by many 
influential foreigners, among them President Theodore Roosevelt, President John 
F. Kennedy and Robert Baden-Powell. It may well have shaped Baden-Powell's ideas 
on the Boy Scout movement he founded.
— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
