The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

What reviewers are saying

Amazon readers rate it 4.8 stars across 3,858 ratings, commonly describing it as engaging, narrative-driven and informative on how money creation works; some reviewers call its length and repetition a drawback. Its central thesis, that the Federal Reserve was created as a banking cartel, is contested: mainstream economists and historians quoted in published coverage describe the book's claims as debunked or overstated relative to the documented record of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting.

• Wikipedia — Documents the book's popularity in anti-Fed circles alongside published academic and press criticism characterizing its research methods and conclusions as unsound. “has been debunked”

• Federal Reserve History — Fed-published history confirming a secret 1910 meeting of six financial figures produced a draft banking-reform plan that fed into the Aldrich Bill. “the rough draft of what later became the Aldrich Bill”

• The Daily Beast — Reports the book's influence and cites experts saying it inflates a real historical meeting into far broader unsupported conspiracy claims.

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