John and Elizabeth Edwards

Elizabeth Edwards — estranged wife of philanderer and former presidential candidate John Edwards — is on the road promoting the paperback release of her memoir, Resilience, and, according to a Washington Post “Reliable Source” report, the paperback has a new ending.

Appearing on the Today show, she told host Matt Lauer she decided to write a new finale because the hardcover release of the book “ended with an intact family.” Keeping it “wouldn’t have been honest… It was important that the next chapter at least be present.”

She also had some things to say about portrayals of her in a couple of new books. As Reliable Source describes it,

The past year saw the release of a memoir by her husband’s former aide Andrew Young and the campaign behind-the-scenes tome “Game Change,” both of which portrayed her as shrill, angry and controlling. Elizabeth dismissed the Young book: “It’s so filled with lies that I don’t see it as having any bearing on the truth, particularly in respect to me.”

“Game Change,” though, seemed to unnerve her. (Though “I know who the sources are,” she warns in passing.) “It was actually useful to have somebody say you were perceived as much harsher than you thought you were.” For example: “I thought of the people who worked in the campaign not as people who worked for John or worked for me, but as people with whom I worked. I thought of us as equals… If I argued about a policy, I thought I was arguing as an equal. Clearly they didn’t have that perception — they thought I was the boss’s wife. I didn’t take that into consideration.”