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• catalog abstract "As the Great Depression tightened its grip on the United States, millions of dollars in foreign securities went into default, many of them in the hands of private American boldholders. In this richly detailed account of efforts to stem the tide of bond defaults, Gene Sessions chronicles the activities of J. Reuben Clark, Jr., and the federally sanctioned Foreign Bondholders Protective Council that he headed. Clark was a conservative international lawyer who believed himself to be a literal prophet of God and who found acquiescence to the bond defaults unacceptable. As head of the Council, he led a heroic effort through the darkest days of the 1930s to reinvigorate the failing debts and ensure that the world as it then existed would continue to treat responsibility for repaying such obligations as nearly sacred. Surprisingly, Clark won some major victories and retired to his home in Utah convinced that, at the very least, the world had learned a serious lesson from its ill-conceived foreign lending habits. The author suggests that, although events since then may have proven Clark wrong, he still personifies the old order dying hard, its warriors contesting change every step of the way. 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 Relying heavily on unpublished archival sources, he presents a careful analysis of the causes and effects of the great 1930s crash in the foreign lending market, investigating not only the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.".
• catalog contributor b3811721.
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "As the Great Depression tightened its grip on the United States, millions of dollars in foreign securities went into default, many of them in the hands of private American boldholders. In this richly detailed account of efforts to stem the tide of bond defaults, Gene Sessions chronicles the activities of J. Reuben Clark, Jr., and the federally sanctioned Foreign Bondholders Protective Council that he headed. Clark was a conservative international lawyer who believed himself to be a literal prophet of God and who found acquiescence to the bond defaults unacceptable. As head of the Council, he led a heroic effort through the darkest days of the 1930s to reinvigorate the failing debts and ensure that the world as it then existed would continue to treat responsibility for repaying such obligations as nearly sacred. Surprisingly, Clark won some major victories and retired to his home in Utah convinced that, at the very least, the world had learned a serious lesson from its ill-conceived foreign lending habits. The author suggests that, although events since then may have proven Clark wrong, he still personifies the old order dying hard, its warriors contesting change every step of the way. 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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [107]-170) and index.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 149 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Prophesying upon the bones.".
• catalog identifier "025201927X".
• catalog isFormatOf "Prophesying upon the bones.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
• catalog relation "Prophesying upon the bones.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "332.6/7373/09043 20".
• catalog subject "Bonds United States History.".
• catalog subject "Clark, J. Reuben (Joshua Reuben), 1871-1961.".
• catalog subject "Clark, J. Reuben, Jr., 1871-1961.".
• catalog subject "Debts, External History.".
• catalog subject "Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, inc. History.".
• catalog subject "HG4538 .S44 1992".
• catalog subject "Investments, American History.".
• catalog subject "Mormons United States Biography.".
• catalog title "Prophesying upon the bones : J. Reuben Clark and the foreign debt crisis, 1933-39 / Gene A. Sessions.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".