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The story of banking in twentieth-century Oklahoma is also the story of the Sooner State's first hundred years, as Michael J. Hightower's new book demonstrates. Oklahoma statehood coincided with the Panic of 1907, and both events signaled seismic shifts in state banking practices.
Banking in Oklahoma, 1907 - 2000 is a thorough, meticulous, and insightful history from statehood to the turn of the millennium. A native Oklahoman, Michael J. Hightower is uniquely suited to describing economic and community development through the lens of banking. His ancestors include Hightowers and Johnsons whose collective legacy was the First National Bank and Trust Company of Oklahoma City. He complements his documentary research with oral histories that he gathered in interviews with scores of bankers across the state. His book plows new ground in illuminating the issues central to banking and commerce that have shaped the state's history."" - H. E. ""Gene"" Rainbolt Chairman, BancFirst Corporation
Michael J. Hightower is an independent historian and principal researcher for the Oklahoma Bank and Commerce History Project of the Oklahoma Historical Society. He is the author of Inventing Tradition: Cowboy Sports in a Postmodern Age. He formerly taught sociology at the University of Virginia and Washington and Lee University.
Frank Keating served as the twenty-fifth governor of Oklahoma (1995-2003) and is currently president and CEO of the American Bankers Association in Washington, D.C.