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How did a group of private bankers devise, promote and ramrod a plan through Congress to take over the money and credit of the United States at a time when anti-trust laws were being invoked to curb corporate monopolies? Answer. With money, foreign connections, inside Congressional help, propaganda and a gullible president who believed their scheme to set up the Federal Reserve System was for the welfare of the United States. That's what his book is about. The story begins late in the first decade of the 20th Century and involves a secret and successful scam that would make any Hollywood cloak-and-dagger mystery pale by comparison. The perpetrators of the swindle include prominent New York bankers, a foreigner sent by European banking interests, a key senator and alleged front man for the Rockefeller interests. They pulled off a successful scheme to the take over the people's money and credit by forming the Federal Reserve System, a deliberate misnomer, since the institution formed was not Federal nor did it have the reserves its name implies. The machinations involved tops anything Alfred Hitchcock and other Hollywood mystery producers have ever come up with. It might even rival the great Edgar Poe, the master of ratiocination himself. The book delves into how it was done and sketches those who participated in the scheme often referred to as the greatest scam in history. It pulls together various accounts of the episode as well as biographies of some participants and quotes from one autobiography of a banker who was in on the fraud and who also was a former economics writer. The story is astounding because the bankers were able to establish a private cartel at the very time when the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts were being invoked to dismantle corporate monopolies such as Standard Oil. They used as much secrecy as they could contrive to conceal their identity using first or phony names and disguising their trip from New York to an idyllic island off the so

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #392848 in Books
• Published on: 2006-06-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 108 pages

About the Author
Richard Sizemore is a veteran newspaperman with more than forty years' experience in writing, editing, and reporting for a wire service, daily newspapers, and trade publications. He spent more than twenty years in Washington with UPI and Fairchild Publications. He also worked for Fairchild and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Dallas and has freelanced for various publications. In Washington, his beats included the Commerce, Treasury, State, and Labor Departments and from time to time, the White House and the Federal Reserve Board, whose actions affected everyone. The story of the Fed has always been fascinating and amazing to him because it is an enigma and constitutionally suspect, but few have challenged it, and those who have tried seriously to do so have met with unkind fates. Since semi-retirement in 1990, Sizemore has devoted his time to reading, researching, and writing on this and other subjects. He writes essays on his Web site, www.sanspap.com, and he has written one other book titled U.S. Sovereignty Under Attack. He lives in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, with his wife, Elizabeth.

Customer Reviews

Perfect, Quick Read!
I sometimes only want a rundown on an issue, to see if I wish to go furthers with a subject, and this covers everything, yet it only took me one evening to read it. The facts are there, it glides along easily, with no complicated language, and gives you a lot of information about who was connected to Jekyll Island, and what they were up to.
After reading it, I also purchased "The Creature from Jekyll Island," and so far, it's been a much more in depth understanding of the entire topic.
I think many would appreciate the information in "Jackals at Jekyll" and it's a nice easy read too.

guy weismantel
Good overview of Jekyll Island and the problems that came from ths secret meeting. I would like to know: WHO ARE THE JACKALS today (real names)

Guy Weismantel, Kingwood, TX
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If you have forever.....................
Book arrived several weeks late. Shipper pockets difference between what is charged for shipping and what is spent on it.