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 others.

Regarding the Bush vs. Gore controversy, Lucas speculates that a President Gore "would not have sought expanding offshore drilling as Bush did, and would have stepped in the way of fracking."  (These are two decisions that could have had profound negative effects on America's present energy superiority.)

Even with the "skullduggery" suspected with four key elections examined by Lucas, he concludes that "all presidents were constitutionally elected."

For the serious election enthusiast, Mr. Lucas's well documented book shines the light on political shadiness of the past and illuminates the path for perceptive fans of the present election cycle. ...