Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-409) and index.; Setting precedents : the first Presidents' wives (1789-1829) -- Young substitutes for First Ladies (1829-1869) -- Three exceptions : Sarah Childress Polk, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Julia Dent Grant -- The limited promise of the " New Woman" (1877-1901) -- The Office of First Lady : a twentieth-century development -- The paradoxical 1920s -- Breaking precedents and reaffirming old ones (1933-1961) -- The turbulent Sixties -- New dimensions to the job of First Lady (1974-1993) -- A new generation in the White House (1993-2008) -- Turning points.;