Though he didn't gussy up his music, he knew how to keep people engrossed all the same: A master of stride and boogie and bebop, he'd string his listeners along just by dancing around the theme, and then at just the right moment, he'd lower the boom, delivering a line so dazzlingly improbable that the common response was a gasp.

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He earned a bachelor of arts degree in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a master of arts degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.

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For once it was Mr Cameron who was close to losing his cool, accusing the prime minister of being a "master of dodgy accounting", pressing his opponent time and again to admit he'd been wrong to claim an end to boom and bust.

BBC: ANALYSIS BY CAROLE WALKER