The Creature

Griffin's book made the Fed's origin story a genre. The island now gives tours.

G. Edward Griffin's 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' (1994) is the money file's most influential popular text: its historical core (the Jekyll Island meeting, cartelization analysis) tracks documented history; its monetary economics (the 'Mandrake mechanism') and remedial program are contested by economists across the spectrum; its influence (Ron Paul movements, End the Fed) is documented politics. The node files the book as an object: the confirmed secret meeting, wrapped in an analysis that keeps the meeting famous.