Doris Kearns Goodwin & Sean Wilentz

Our political leaders constantly talk about the power of democracy. They often speak of it as a goal to aim for, an ideal of governance. A new book shows, however, that our own democracy took decades to evolve, in a process that was neither easy nor certain. We'll talk with author Sean Wilentz on his book The Rise of American Democracy in a few minutes. But first, a fresh look at the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, in Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team of Rivals.