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The following errors appear in the "first printing" of the 2009 edition. They have been corrected in the "second printing."


Page 3 of 2009 Edition: "Charles D. Norton" is listed as one of the Jekyll Island attendees. Per the notation in the 5th Edition of the Creature from Jekyll Island, we now know (despite reputable references to the contrary) that Norton was not present among the Jekyll Island conspirators in 1910. 


Page 36 of 2009 Edition: Quote "The Continental run was like some modernistic fantasy: there were no throngs of hysterical depositors, just cool nightmare flashes on computer screens." This quote is correctly attributed to Chernow. However, the rest of the quote "Inside the bank, all was calm..." is from page 153 of Irvine Sprague's book Bailout: An Insider's Account of Bank Failures and Rescues.






Creature from Jekyll Island, 5th Edition update:

In the first twenty-seven printings of this book, Charles D. Norton, of J.P. Morgan’s First National Bank of New York, was listed as one of the attendees, However, thanks to the impeccable research of Michael Steenwyk in Hudsonville, Michigan, it now is clear that this was not possible. Steenwyk uncovered historical documents and private papers of the Norton family showing that Mr. Norton (1) was not with the Morgan Bank in November of 1910, (2) was the personal secretary of President Taft at the time, and (3) during the dates of the Jekyll Island meeting, he was with the President on a fact-finding trip in Panama. Furthermore, none of the memoirs of the other attendees mention Mr. Norton’s presence.


The reason he was placed on the list originally is that his name is included in numerous respected references on this topic, including J. Laurence Laughlin’s The Federal Reserve Act; Its Origins and Problems (N.Y., Macmillan, 1933) and a book by Tyler E. Bagwell, historian of the Jekyll Island Museum, entitled Images of America; The Jekyll Island Club (Charlston, SC, Arcadia, 1998). However, based on the historical documents uncovered by Steenwyk, it is this author’s conclusion that Norton was not at the meeting, nor was there any apparent reason for him to be.