Table of Contents:
  • Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls"
  • Early first ladies and the public sphere
  • Jackie Kennedy and the construction of Camelot
  • First ladies as political helpmates : Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon
  • First ladies and feminism : Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter
  • First ladies and image-making : Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton as media polarizer
  • Laura Bush as emblem of national caring
  • Looking ahead.