The Axe Files, featuring David Axelrod, is a podcast distributed by CNN and produced at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. The author works for the podcast. In her read of history, it is personal adversity rather than perpetual success that molds presidential temperament. "I think overcoming adversity is an extraordinarily important trait for a leader," Goodwin told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files" podcast, produced by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN. "Which was what stunned me, in a way, when Donald Trump said that he had the very, very best temperament of anybody who had ever run for the president because he always won, that he had a winning temperament," Goodwin continued.

Source: CNN November 28, 2016 11:12 UTC