How to Read a President, with Carlos Lozada, Vinson Cunningham, and Curtis Sittenfeld

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🗓️ 3 May 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Getting to know presidents through memoirs, journalism, and fiction.

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0:00.0	South Dakota Governor Christy Nome is responding to backlash over a story in her upcoming memoir.
0:08.0	In the book, Nome says she shot and killed her 14-month-old puppy for bad behavior.
0:13.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:16.0	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:18.0	Every election season, political memoirs are bound,
0:21.0	often divulging more than intended.
0:24.0	No matter how diligently they present themselves in the most electable light, they always reveal
0:30.1	themselves.
0:31.1	Their insecurities, their fears, their ambitions.
0:34.0	Plus, a novelist imagines the private life of political figures in search of unknowable answers.
0:42.0	What does Laura Bush think of the Iraq war? Does she approve of it? And if she
0:48.0	doesn't, does she feel complicit? How to read a political on this week's on the media from WNYC Studios.
1:11.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:14.0	Michael Lowinger is out this week.
1:16.0	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:18.0	This week marks exactly six months until the 2024 elections, and there's been no lack of news from
1:25.8	the presidential nominees one incumbent in 2024 we're gonna make Donald
1:31.9	Trump a loser again.
1:34.8	And one in court.
1:36.4	I'm a president of the United States.
1:40.2	And I got indicted.
1:41.4	But can we ever really know a public figure?
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