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English
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Prophesying Upon the Bones : J. Reuben Clark and the Foreign Debt Crisis, 1933-39
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Urbana
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University of Illinois Press
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"Sessions's study fills a void in the literature that has come forth, particularly in the last decade, on the international debt crisis. Relying heavily on unpublished archival sources, he presents a careful analysis of the causes and effects of the great 1930s crash in the foreign lending market, investigating not only the foreign lending scene of the time but also the ways in which American politicians, financiers, investors, and their advocates tried to adjust to painful economic and social realities related to the collapse of the foreign bond market. In the book's last chapter, Sessions discusses the diminishing career of the still-extant FBPC since World War II in light of recent developments in the foreign debt situation." [Author]