South Dakota Governor Christy Nome is responding to backlash over a story in her upcoming memoir.

In the book, Nome says she shot and killed her 14-month-old puppy for bad behavior.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Every election season, political memoirs abound,

often divulging more than intended.

No matter how diligently they present themselves in the most electable light, they always reveal

themselves.

Their insecurities, their fears, their ambitions.

Plus, a novelist imagines the private life of political figures in search of unknowable answers.

What does Laura Bush think of the Iraq war? Does she approve of it? And if she doesn't, does she feel

complicit? How to read a political on this week's on the media from WNY.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Michael Lowinter is out this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

As we near election day, voters seek to glimpse the true selves of presidential candidates.

To that end, an old clip of Kamala Harris describing her Thanksgiving recipe has gotten

a lot of mileage.

You can do a little rosemary if you want under the skin with some

butter before you're gonna cook it so that that that butter will just melt in.

Well how about that she cooks at the Republican National Convention the party tried to show

Donald Trump's softer side inviting his granddaughter to share this story.

To me he's just a normal grandpa. He gives us candy and soda when our parents aren't looking and then there are the tidbits reporters dig up against the candidates will

independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr. is now admitting that he abandoned a young dead bear in Central Park.

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