Description

Public Affairs Press [Published Date: 1969]. Hardcover, 232 pp. No other printings listed. Very good in good dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has several small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NOT price clipped NO remainder marks. [From front jacket flap] In calling attention to the importance of this book, Willis Alexander, President of the American Bankers Association, states in the foreword: This history of Missouri banking performs a variety of missions. It provides a fascinating chronicle of the development of an industry; a part of the national scene often characterized by special local variations in peace, timing and even in direction. It serves as a reminder that institutions and the industries which they comprise are reflections of the influence of individuals - people through their actions, influence and mold events. This then is a story of people and how they influenced the banking system we now have in Missouri. For bankers, particularly bankers of Missouri, the history has particular significance. The system we now have can be viewed in a new perspective. Clearly its evolution has been in part orderly, in part accidental. Its philosophy is a mixture of the rational and the emotional. A clear recognition of the factors providing the background for banking in Missouri is helpful and indeed may be essential to successful management of the changes which Missouri banks must make to meet the needs of our citizens in the rapidly changing environment which is the future.