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Title: Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson by Kenneth R. Timmerman ISBN: 0895261650 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 04 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15
Rating: 4
Summary: DECIDE FOR YOURSELF
Comment: It's a sad, sad day when I read this book, shattering my illusions about a great leader of the Civil Rights Movement. I guess the latter-day leadership just isn't up to the standards of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy. I still don't want to believe all of these allegations without a further show of proof, but the evidence here is damning. Where do we go for leadership from here? This book hurts me when I think about it, but decide for yourself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant
Comment: Finally a book comes out that shows what we suspected all along.(...)
Mr. Timmerman does a brilliant job at using
verifiable facts to support what every reasonable minded person has
known for quite some time.
Rating: 4
Summary: Political Bias of Author Doesn't Spoil this Book
Comment: Kenneth Timmerman plainly doesn't like Jesse Jackson. His views of the man color nearly every event detailed in this book. He takes a hatchet to all facets of Jackson's career, from his controversial origins as a public figure after Martin Luther King's death to his fundraising activities to his diplomatic trips to Africa.
But one thing this book will convince you of is that if anyone deserves a hatchet chopping through his reputation, it's Jesse Jackson. And perhaps only a partisan reporter -- one angry at what he sees Jackson doing -- would be determined enough to see the task through to completion. As Timmerman notes when writing of other clashes between some journalists and Jackson, reporters have sometimes paid for crossing the "Reverend."
In "Shakedown", the main case against Jackson is that he uses racial politics of division to enrich himself and a few wealthy black friends. Timmerman details how in incident after incident Jackson intimidates companies to squeeze them for money in one form or another. And Jackson's strategy is to foster a growth industry with some of that money going back to his organizations to be used for future confrontations against other companies.
Timmerman shows that Jackson isn't particularly concerned about the justice of his claims against the companies or in whether the average black person is helped by his actions. The important goal for him is to get the money flowing out of the companies to his organizations. All other issues are secondary. And most companies usually go along with this extortion because they recognize it is cheaper than a boycott against their products would be.
But while Jackson's shakedown of U.S. corporations is the main topic of the book, it is not -- in my opinion -- the most damaging revelations. Instead, I found Jackson's early but intimate connections to a notorious Chicago gang and his adventures with some of the bloodiest dictators on the continent of Africa to be far more revelatory. At the best, one can accuse Jackson of horrible misjudgment in these relations; at the worst, he willingly associated with murderers for personal gain.
Whatever your politics, you are not likely to think of Jackson in a positive light after reading this book. That the leadership of black protest has gone from Martin Luther King to Jesse Jackson to Al Sharpton over the last four decades shows what a dead end it has become. This book simply shows that the progression from King to Jackson to Sharpton had a much steeper drop off between the first two names than it does between the last two.
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Title: Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right by Ann H. Coulter ISBN: 1400046610 Publisher: Crown Pub Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News by Bernard Goldberg ISBN: 0895261901 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House by Barbara Olson ISBN: 0895261677 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Let Freedom Ring: Winning the War of Liberty over Liberalism by Sean Hannity ISBN: 0060514558 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 20 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists Criminals & Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores by Michelle Malkin ISBN: 0895261464 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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