Creature from Jekyll Island by George Griffin

Seven men slipped onto a private island in 1910 under the cover of secrecy. What they built there — the Federal Reserve System — still dictates every boom, bust, bailout, and war economy today. In The Creature from Jekyll Island, G. Edward Griffin confronts the institution head-on and reveals its true nature. The Creature from Jekyll Island names not a mystical beast, but the real leviathan of modern control.

Griffin takes readers inside that hidden history. He recounts the railcar journey to Jekyll Island where bankers and politicians scripted the Fed’s charter, then shows how the “creature” grew into a cartel: bailouts for insiders, inflation as stealth taxation, and the Mandrake Mechanism — money from nothing that buys power and debt alike. He follows the Rothschild formula through wars financed by fiat paper, tracks how the Lusitania was used to drag America into conflict, and indicts the system as the quiet accomplice of bloodshed.

The book is not theory but casework. Griffin documents earlier American central banks that collapsed under scandal, and he catalogs how the Federal Reserve swallows Congress, manipulates credit, and ensures that “competition is a sin.” He marshals evidence from banking charters, wartime finance, and economic collapse to argue that the Fed is incapable of its stated mission and serves instead as the supreme instrument of usury and totalitarian ambition.

Why now? Because the same dubious creature lives on today, threatening the very future of our lives. Griffin warns of doomsday devices embedded in the financial system — debt spirals, engineered crises, and the march toward global governance. Yet he insists the future is not foreordained: by exposing the creature, we can choose to end its reign. For readers willing to question the myth of benevolent central banking, this is both map and indictment. (2010, 5th edition, 608pp, pb)