The renown presidential biographer and historian Jon Meacham joins us to discuss his new book about the life, times and death of Abraham Lincoln. We explore parallels between the divisions that resulted in the Civil Way and the divisive atmosphere of today. Presidential biographer and historian Jon Meacham is out with a new book about Abraham Lincoln. We discuss the parallels between the divisive atmosphere of 1861 and that of the present. Dr. Meacham appears at the Kentucky Book Festival on Oct. 29 in conversation with David Blight, Pulitzer Prize for History,  Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.