Yeah maybe don't start with some snake-oil anti-everything guy. Read the actual literature first and then go to those claiming to know better.

Or better, read some review of the actual literature before investing in a book, to see if it's snake oil. For instance:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105752191...

From the cited text: "The question is considered why the economics profession has failed over most of the past century to make any progress concerning knowledge of the monetary system, and why it instead moved ever further away from the truth as already recognised by the credit creation theory well over a century ago. The role of conflicts of interest and interested parties in shaping the current bank-free academic consensus is discussed."

My 100 year old theory is better then your 100 theory. Even if it has no support form most people who have spent their whole lives studying it.