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May 8, 2002: The left-wing weekly "The Nation" reviews Shakedown and Bias , calling Regnery "the only national publishing house with the reflexes of a helicopter gunship." Reviewer Carlin Romano notes that Shakedown! "leaves Jesse jackson barely breathing as a political player" and "batters Jesse so badly his reproductive equipment may never recover."

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April 26, 2002: Brent Bozell critiques the left-wing media silence on Shakedow in a Media Research Column. Read also reviews by Joseph H. Brown in the Tampa Tribune, Stephen Greenut in the Orange County Register, Colby Gordon of the Kansas State Collegian, Alex Bohl of the Eastern Michigan University Echo, and Peggy Whitcomb in Oregon magazine.

April 9, 2002: National Review carries syndicated columnist Deroy Murdock's scathing description of what motivates Jesse Jackson, "The Benjamin Principle."

April 8, 2002: The New York Post today reviews Shakedown!. John Leo, in US News & World Report, mentions Shakedown in a column on reparations. See also: Unsigned review from Evote.com. Read Don Daniels remarks (a former Jackson campaign aide) on the need to "shakedown" U.S. Corporations.

March 31, 2002: Read the transcript of Ken's radio interview with George Metcalf of WorldNetDaily.

March 28, 2002: The Associated Press examines how readers are turning to liberal and conservative books rather than the news media for news. "The spectrum of information that people are exposed to is so narrow that they're turning to books," a liberal publisher admits.

March 25, 2002: Kimberley Lindsay Wilson, author of Work It! The Black Woman's Guide to Success at Work, calls Shakedown a "shocker." Read her review on-line.

March 21, 2002: Cornell University economics professor Thomas Sowell rebuts Jackson allies in a syndicated column, "History vs. Hogwash," after Ken's appearance on the O'Reilly factor. Also today, read the transcript of Ken's latest appearance on Hannity & Colmes (FoxNews)

March 20, 2002: After 2 weeks, Shakedown hits #3 on the NYT list... Still no NY Times book review, though.

March 13, 2002: After less than one full week in the stores, Shakedown makes $4 on the New York Times best-seller list to be released on march 24.

March 12, 2002: Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson issues a "statement of support" for Ken's work, and says, "Timmerman has done a great service for the black community by writing this book." See also a related article by Peterson from March 11.

March 7, 2002: Read the transcript of Ken's appearance on Hannity & Colmes (FoxNews).

March 6, 2002: Read the transcript of Ken's appearance on Crossfire (CNN) with bill Press, Tucker Carlson, and Ron Walters, of the African-American Leadership Institute.

March 5, 2002: Ken appears on The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News. Read the transcript here. (This link also includes streaming video). Shakedown! hits #1 on the Amazon.com sales chart, after just one day on the market.

March 4, 2002: Shakedown is released to bookstores and the media by Regnery Publishing. Matt Drudge says Shakedown is "the largest first printing in Regnery history." Newsmax reports on "Jesse Jackson's Criminal Ties." The New York Post publishes excerpts, "Jackson's Lies."

Insight Magazine: "How Jesse Jackson Puts Family First."

Human Events: "Shakedown"

WorldNetDaily:

- March 14 , 2002: Congressman Jackson's mysterious mortgage.

- March 13, 2002: Jackson blames feds for failure in Africa.

- March 12, 2002: Jesse 'mainstream's an African tyrant.

- March 11, 2002: Jesse jackson's shakedown methods.

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- Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense (1981-1987)