A couple of important books just came out that serve as good reference texts for the present campaign season.  The books are Tainted by Suspicion: The Secret Deals and Electoral Chaos of Disputed Presidential Elections by Fred Lucas of The Daily Signal (Stairway Press, 2016) and The Intimidation Game: How the Left is Silencing Free Speech by Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal editorial board (Twelve, 2016). We can't know the end of the 2016 election now, but probably everyone agrees that the next thirteen weeks will be a raucous ride.  Perspective on the journey may help foster reasoned thinking and important decisions on the stakes of the election outcome. Enter Tainted by Suspicion.  Veteran White House correspondent and author Fred Lucas takes an in-depth look at several historic controversial elections including John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson, Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel Tilden, and of course George W. Bush vs. Albert Gore, among...(Read Full Post)