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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve Paperback – January 1, 2010

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Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. We get a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A dry and boring subject? Just wait! You'll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story - which it really is.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ American Media
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 2010
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 5th
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 608 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 091298645X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0912986456
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.99 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.26 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.8 out of 5 stars 3,642 ratings

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G. Edward Griffin

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G. EDWARD GRIFFIN

is a writer, documentary film producer, and Founder of Freedom Force International. Listed in Who’s Who in America, he is well known because of his talent for researching difficult topics and presenting them in clear terms that all can understand.

He has dealt with such diverse subjects as archaeology and ancient Earth history, the Federal Reserve System and international banking, terrorism, internal subversion, the history of taxation, U.S. foreign policy, the science and politics of cancer therapy, the Supreme Court, and the United Nations.

His better-known works include The Creature from Jekyll Island, World without Cancer, The Discovery of Noah’s Ark, Moles in High Places, The Open Gates of Troy, No Place to Hide, The Capitalist Conspiracy, More Deadly than War, The Grand Design, The Great Prison Break, and The Fearful Master.

Ed is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he majored in speech and communications. He is a recipient of the coveted Telly Award for excellence in television production, the creator of the Reality Zone Audio Archives, Publisher of Need to Know News, and is President of American Media, a publishing and video production company in Southern California.

He has served on the board of directors of The National Health Federation and The International Association of Cancer Victors and Friends and is Founder and President of The Cancer Cure Foundation. He is the Founder of Freedom Force International and creator of Red Pill University, Red-Pill Expos, and Rabbit-Hole Expeditions. The mission of these Red-Pill and Rabbit-Hole endeavors is far more serious than they may sound. It is to popularize a global coalition for the victory of individualism over collectivism and liberty over tyranny.

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Customers find the book highly readable, with one noting it reads like a story, and many consider it required reading for high school students. The information is well-researched and effectively weaves historical facts, making it an eye-opener. While customers appreciate the financial explanations, some find it filled with conspiracy theories.

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406 customers mention "Readability"383 positive23 negative

Customers find the book highly readable and well-written, with one customer noting it reads like a story, and several mentioning it should be required reading in high school.

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"...to be somewhat long winded and repetitive at points, but overall a good and interesting read. Four stars." Read more

"This book is a must read. Now I'm seriously pissed off. Unplug from this B.S. monetary system, study and buy Bitcoin. You will thank me later." Read more

274 customers mention "Information quality"260 positive14 negative

Customers praise the book's well-researched content and effective weaving of historical facts, with one customer highlighting how it explains the creation of the Federal Reserve.

"Excellent read. Documented and great information. I would recommend to anyone!" Read more

"...It appears to be extremely well researched and documented, though I didn’t check out the accuracy of the footnotes...." Read more

"...This is not that kind of book. This book traces the history of banking and paper money starting hundreds of years ago when goldsmiths kept gold in..." Read more

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116 customers mention "Eye opening"109 positive7 negative

Customers find the book eye-opening, describing it as fascinating and enlightening, with one customer noting how it changes their perspective on the world.

"...Chapter 13 about the Bolshevik Revolution is very interesting, Chapter 19 about Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth also very interesting, as is..." Read more

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41 customers mention "Value for money"33 positive8 negative

Customers find the book valuable for its financial explanations, particularly regarding the value of money and the transition to a hard money economy, with one customer noting how money can be used to create wars.

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"...The chapter on Banking alone, is worth the price of admission...." Read more

42 customers mention "Conspiracy theory"27 positive15 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the book's conspiracy theory content, with some appreciating its depth while others find it filled with unfounded speculation.

"...However, forewarned is forearmed and a solution is possible. It's a 600-page book, available in print and as an audiobook on Audible...." Read more

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The Wikipedia page for G Edward Griffin states that he is a conspiracy theorist. There are only two possibilities for why this is: 1) Whoever edited his page simply did not look into the information he discusses in his book. 2) Whoever edited his page is part of a campaign to keep this information from the people of the world & to keep them perpetually confused. If you have ever wondered why year after year, we as the public keep getting promises from every direction (doesn't matter which political party you adhere to) that things are going to start getting better, but only the opposite ever happens, then you absolutely owe it to yourself to read this book. This book is 100% MANDATORY if you are a truth seeker who is sick and tired of all the confusion about you in the world. BUT be prepared. As Morpheus says to Neo in The Matrix: "I never told you it would be easy, I only told you it would be THE TRUTH." This information is a starting point. "Step #1" if you will. Lifting the veil of confusion is step 1 before we can ever hope to get to step 2, which is to organize some type of plan for fixing our present and future world. I don't know how we're going to fix this, but first you have to know what "this" is. Be brave. Be open & receptive. Start here.
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  • Arthur Gomez
    5.0 out of 5 stars A book I wish I never read but glad I did
    Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2025
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    This is one of my favorite books, so much so I've read it twice. It's also a book I wish I've never read but glad I did because it will open your eyes. The author gives you the glimpse inside the Federal reserve system and why it should be abolished. Simply put, it's all a lie and their objectives can never really be accomplished because their real stated objective is to serve their banking masters the banking cartels and their families who have been running our financial world for generations. The evil intentions for continuous war, gambling on people's lives, money printing, bail out money for the rich and to enrich those they serve rather than serving We The People. Further evidence the author provides is through the devaluation of the currency since it's existence and has no other tricks up it's sleeve other than more money printing, and purposely creating chaos for more control and to one day own it all for themselves and making themselves even more powerful in the process.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Great service!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2025
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    I received this book from the seller, Munich Warehouse Deals, timely and such and unfortunately the book had a manufacturing defect and was missing 30 some odd pages. I contacted Munich Warehouse Deals and spoke with Erica, sent them a few pictures of the missing pages and they replaced the book cheerfully! Erica was absolutely fantastic to work with and very accommodating and even though the defect was no fault of theirs as it was clearly a manufacturing defect, they happily replaced the book with a new one. Wonderful service and it was very refreshing to work with a company that stands behind it's products as that is exceedingly rare these days. Will definitely be purchasing through them again in the future and thank you again Erica for your thoughtful service and assistance!
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  • Ben
    5.0 out of 5 stars They were going to change the fundamental architecture of the nation’s banking system.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2025
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    Sounds like a tropical romance horror fiction book. And it kind of
    is. Well, the tropical romance, for sure. Can you imagine boarding
    a fancy private train car back in the early 1900s, using only your
    first name, to ride all the way to Jekyll Island, Georgia, just across
    the sound from Saint Simons Island? A small fishing and hunting
    hamlet at the time. A trip of a lifetime. A trip to change history.
    On Jekyll, a newly built clubhouse of sorts served as the backdrop
    for the historic plans that were to be drawn up by the architects
    of finance in their day. Nelson Aldrich, A. Piatt Andrew, Henry
    Davison, Arthur Shelton, Frank Vanderlip, and Paul Warburg
    agreed to meet and make that arduous first-class journey south
    in November of 1910.
    They were going to change the fundamental architecture of the
    nation’s banking system. They had no idea, but two World Wars
    later, and that banking system would be the world’s, too.
    I have been to this Jekyll Island club. It is wild to see this majestic
    and beautiful building on the grounds of the vacation homes of
    the rich and famous from a time gone by, before Robin Leach. I
    have jogged amongst the buildings on this grand property in the
    early dawn. It’s so fitting the banking system would be founded
    here, on the grounds of what is now rented property owned by the
    state for the preservation and enjoyment of everyone who can
    make the trip to visit.
    Our banking system where money is kept, created, and lent in
    order to create more rents to return more money to be kept,
    created, and lent — founded on the grounds of a property where
    now visitors are kept and rooms are rented.
    It’s a beautiful place. Its history should not be forgotten.
    This book teaches you of this event and of the mechanics and
    architecture that resulted.
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  • Melody
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Researched Information Presented in a Story like format
    Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2025
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    Excellent read. Documented and great information. I would recommend to anyone!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars The most informative and disturbing book I have ever read
    Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2017
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    This is the most informative and disturbing book I have ever read. It appears to be extremely well researched and documented, though I didn’t check out the accuracy of the footnotes. Some takeaways: (1) The Rothschilds, the Morgans, the Rockefellers, and a few others, control this country, most of its media and its significant politicians, through their control of a cartel deceptively called the Federal Reserve System. (2) The same Rothschilds, and others, control other major economic powers through parallel control of their central banks, media, and politicians. (3) Despite our “Founding Fathers’” vehement opposition to any central bank or government-issued paper money, their efforts to ban it constitutionally have been circumvented. (4) Politicians, with few exceptions, cannot resist the appeal of being able to issue “fiat” (not backed by anything of value, therefore being able to be produced in ever expanding masses until that particular economy eventually collapses) money, because it seems much less painful than levying taxes, and virtually none of their electorate realize that its issuance enables the politicians to spend much more than they could ever raise through taxation while at the same time reducing the value of the citizens’ savings, salaries, pensions, etc. (5) “Fractional reserves” enable banks to loan out close to 10 times the value of their real assets, dramatically increasing the amount of ever-increasing currency in circulation and proportionately cheapening its currency (therefore up to 10 times the country’s recently doubled national debt), and to earn interest on each of those multiples loaned. (6) The Rothschilds and their fellow collaborators have learned that nothing inspires a country to engage in the massive issuance of fiat money like war, and they have therefore helped develop and funded “enemy” powers where none existed, then fostered wars among them, then financed both sides of those wars, then used their control of media to entice the ignorant public into believing in those wars, and reaped huge spoils from those wars, not only in interest on loans, but in lucrative commercial monopolies received for their troubles. (7) Groups of greedy (understatement) “idealists” (of which Cecil Rhodes may be considered a prime initiator) began before World War I working toward a single, socialist/communist autocratic world government which would impose the wonders of the elitist British culture on all the world (including the Fabians and, in the US, members of the Council on Foreign Relations) which they, of course, would control. (8) The economic and military strength of the US makes it difficult to subjugate to such a plan, so they need it (through its banks) to, i.a., make massive “loans” (with no expectation of principal repayment but with government [US taxpayers] guarantees) to less affluent countries, thereby dramatically economically and militarily weakening the US while distributing its wealth (on which they collect interest) to the less developed nations with examples like the US’s recent funding of Mexican drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, and Brazil’s drilling for oil off its coast, while refusing to allow US drilling in the Gulf for “environmental” reasons, and blocking two pipelines that would have been environmentally far safer and better for the US economy and national security. Of course, this should be required reading in every high school and college, but then, consider the odds that such an idea would even be considered in the US “academic” institutions of today.
    I just went back and skimmed the 1-star and 2-star reviews, looking for a scholarly refutation of the author's arguments and analysis,. A few said they disagreed, or that the author Cherry picked, but offered nothing more. If all this we're refutable, wouldn't someone have done so?
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  • Pranav Bhosekar
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant book. A must read to understand the true impact of dedollarisation.
    Reviewed in India on May 25, 2025
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    Brilliant book. A must to understand how exactly the US Federal Reserve was created by whom and for what purpose. This is extremely relevant to understand the imapct of dedollarisation on the American economy and the Western model of economic control of other nations.
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  • Annu8
    5.0 out of 5 stars The creature from jekyll island
    Reviewed in Germany on October 10, 2024
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    Alles Bestens, vielen Dank, jederzeit gerne wieder
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  • AJ
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping, Important, Accessible...
    Reviewed in Canada on November 26, 2021
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    I was putting off reading this book because I mistakenly got the impression that it was going to be a dense, long and dry read.

    However when I finally cracked it open - I couldn't put it down. For your typical student of Austrian economics none of the history outlined in this book will be particularly surprising, but when you see it all put together in this way the magnitude of injustice perpetuated by our insidious monetary system washes over you in waves of insight, horror and outrage.

    I've seen people complain about the fact that the author doesn't organize the book in chronological order, but I prefer it this way. The book can be read cover to cover but also serves as useful resource to refer to, with the chapters effectively standing alone as lessons. While I recommend reading all of it, one can easily cherry pick chapters that cover topics of particular interest.

    It's precisely the kind of book I would recommend to anybody and everybody, and in fact I ordered this copy specifically to hand around to my blue collar coworkers, with a selection of chapters and passages I find especially poignant bookmarked for them to read.

    To my surprise and elation - my coworkers (largely uneducated immigrants - hard working, well meaning factory men and women of character) have been very receptive and engaged with the concepts and dreadful realities outlined in this work.

    Given the geopolitical and economic circumstances we currently find ourselves in (and in the case of my coworkers and myself, the economic class we find ourselves in, namely lowly workers of a small independent manufactueing business in the productive economy), these lessons are especially powerful and are exactly the sort of notions that need to be spread around to the common man and woman. The harm caused by the machinations of the world's central bankers confront us every day, and adults of all backgrounds and circumstance are ready and able to make sense of them with the help of books like this.

    Some also seem to point to the author's proclivity for "conspiracy theory", but I honestly don't know what they're talking about. The few times the author speculates about motives or specific events, he's very clear about when he's making assumptions and when he's simply relaying accounts by important players. The readers can make of those quotations what they will, but this isn't some wild eyed rant. It's a well researched account of banking history in the US.

    At times the author may attribute more influence to some of the not-so-secret societies and clubs populated by financial elites than can really be proven, but digging into the details of those groups is hardly the point of this book anyways. Whether particular agendas were prompted by one cabal or another is almost immaterial - the insidious consequences of said agendas are the same. The large majority of the book is just analysis, explanation and history.

    Overall I'd argue this book and it's message have aged exceptionally well, and it feels like the sort of work that could change the world for the better if only more people were aware of it. Were high school students compelled to read books like this rather than the drivel that is typical in a school curriculum, one can only imagine the kind of world we might live in...

    Whether you're interested in sound money economic theory or not this book is must-read. It's written in plain and accessible language, it's succinct, it's eye-opening... Absolutely a necessity for any modern thinking person's library.
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  • Cliente Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars UNA STORIA VERA DELLA NASCITA DELLA FED
    Reviewed in Italy on February 24, 2019
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    Capire meglio come questa "Finanza" ha voluto le due guerre mondiali è necessaria per evitare la propaganda ufficiale degli "storici di corte" . La documentazione è eccelente ; in definitiva è questo che più ci serve. In fatti parlano da sè, non necessitano di "interpretazioni" da parte degli "accademici".
    La FED non è una banca privata, non è né una "riserva" né "federale.
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