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   Read Patman's book "A Primer on Money" in .html -- it is easier to cut and paste than a .pdf
2. Read Patman's speech of 1964 to Congress in .html -- it is easier to read than his book.
3. Download a .pdf of Patman's 1964 Classic, 141 page book "A primer On Money". Tells how out money and banking system works under the Federal Reserve System and how to fix it.
4. Patman wrote A Primer On Money -- the first book that clearly and honestly explained how our money and banking systems operate. For that we all owe him a tribute. Without that book, virtualy nothing on this website would have seen the light of day.
5. Link to a .pdf of Wright Patman's "A Primer On Money" / http://www.primeronmoney.com/page3ofjunewebsite.html
6. How paper-money came to be. It may be the most important invention ever made, and the most important article we have ever written. It tells how we are the victims of a clever, but benevolent scam. -- Taken from Patman's writing

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   Wright Patman / An American Hero

• Annals of a Crusade: Wright Patman and the Federal Reserve System / by William B. Harrison*
  
• Taken from: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119568145/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
  
• *William B. Harrison, Ph.D., is associate professor of economics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 901 West Franklin Street, Richmond, Va. 23284
• This paper is a summary of a monograph under the same title available on microfiche; for ordering information, see final footnote.
  
• Copyright 1981 American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc.

Abstract: As a Congressman from Texas from 1929 to 1976, Wright Patman supported Populist-type legislation which aided farmers, small businessmen and consumers. His perennial target in the postwar era was the Federal Reserve System. He resented the central bank's political independence and believed that "high"interest rates
brought about by monetary policy actions benefited banks and harmed ordinary citizens. Rather than attacking the Fed's control of monetary policy directly, Patman tried to improve Fed accountability to Congress by subjecting the Fed's budgetary process and expenditures to government audit and/or the Congressional appropriations process.
Despite numerous investigations, reports, and pieces of legislation, Patman's crusade failed to achieve its objectives. Nevertheless, his persistent criticism over 25 years undoubtedly created an atmosphere for change. Eschewing the indirect approach, Patman's political heirs in Congress demanded and received more accountability (and less secrecy) from the Fed regarding monetary policy objectives. Ironically Patman's abortive crusade may have paved the way for their later success.