The man known in the 1950 s as the Chairman of the American Establishment, John J. McCloy, spent his middle-class youth on the island prior to World War I, where his mother was the favored hairdresser of wives of the elite. From that crucial geographical entry point, he made the personal contacts that led to his becoming the most influential private citizen in the United States, and presumably the world, from 1949 to at least 1970, and possibly into the early 1980 s. Geography has consequences. Jeckyl Island, where J. P. Morgan had a home, as did William Rockefeller, John D. Senior s brother, was where the secret meeting first names only was held in 1910 to plan the Federal Reserve System. This important meeting is rarely mentioned in history textbooks.
Most historians think that a conspiracy theory of history is naive.
This is why they are generally ignorant of these three islands and the social and economic background of their richest and longest-residing inhabitants. Walter Lippmann, a late-comer, bought property on Mt. Desert in the early 1940 s. He did not write about its importance. The Old Boy Network is alive and well, and in the summers, they separate themselves by water from the rest of us. Gary North is the author of a ten-volume series, An Economic Commentary on the Bible .