Introduction: First Ladies rule -- Must I always be first?: Martha Washington -- Do NOT forget the ladies!: Abigail Adams -- Presidents who (technically) had no first ladies and why -- Bubbly, bold, brave: Dolley Madison -- Illness, heroic journeys, and Texas: Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Adams, Anna Harrison, and two very different Tylers - Letitia Tyler and Julia Tyler -- Ambition versus invisibility: Sarah Polk, Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, and Jane Pierce -- Civil War breaks out: Mary Lincoln -- And now the "New Woman Era:" Eliza Johnson, Julia Grant, Lucy Hayes and Lucretia Garfield -- The modern woman emerges: Frances Cleveland, Caroline Harrison, Ida McKinley, Edith Roosevelt, and Helen Taft -- The artist and the first woman prez: Ellen Wilson and Edith Wilson -- Flying first ladies: Florence Harding, Grace Coolidge, and Lou Hoover -- First lady of the world: Eleanor Roosevelt -- Pink and pretty: Bess Truman and Mamie Eisenhower -- One thousand days - and beyond: Jacqueline Kennedy -- A millionaire, a Goodwill ambassador, and one who made a difference: Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon, and Betty Ford -- The steel magnolia, the iron butterfly and the enforcer: Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush -- Developing a thick skin: Hillary Clinton -- The bookworm: Laura Bush -- Serious role model: Michelle Obama -- Glamour to spare: Melania Trump -- Forty women who shaped America.