The list below describes a selection of published books and articles containing
information about Mrs. Ford’s life and her role as First Lady. For
more details about published sources regarding Mrs. Ford, or relevant issues
and events, contact the Ford Library.
Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents'
Wives and their Power, 1961-1990. New York: William Morrow and Company,
Inc., 1991.
Borrelli, Mary Anne. "Competing Conceptions of the First
Ladyship: Public
Responses to Betty Ford's 60 Minutes Interview." Presidential
Studies Quarterly, vol. 31, no.4, 397-414, 2001
Caroli, Betty Boyd. First Ladies. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1987.
Carter, Rosalyn. First Lady from Plains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1984.
Ford, Betty. Glad Awakening. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987. [Memoir
concerning Mrs. Ford’s recovery from substance abuse and the founding
of the Betty Ford Center.]
_____. Healing and Hope. New York: Putnam’s Sons,
2003. [Betty Ford weaves her own commentary around the first-person
narratives of six women treated at the Betty Ford Center.]
_____. The Times of My Life. New York: Harper & Row,
1978. [Autobiography of her life concluding with her admittance
to Long Beach Naval Hospital.]
Greene, John Robert. Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White
House. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Gutin, Myra. The President's Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth
Century. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Gutin, Myra G. and Leesa E. Tobin. “‘You've Come a Long
Way, Mr. President’: Betty Ford as First Lady” in Gerald
R. Ford and the Politics of Post-Watergate America edited by Bernard
J. Firestone, and Alexej Ugrinsky. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
Knopf-Newman, Marcy Jane. Beyond Slash,
Burn, and Poison: Transforming
Breast Cancer Stories into Action. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
Press, 2004.
Rohrer, Karen M. “’If There Was Anything You Forgot
to Ask…’:The
Papers of Betty Ford.” Prologue: Journal
of the National Archives,
vol. 19,
no. 2, 143-153, 1987.
Rosebush, James. First Lady, Public Wife. Lanham, MD: Madison
Books, 1987.
Tobin, Leesa. “Betty Ford as First Lady: A Woman for Women.” Presidential
Studies Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 4, 761-767, 1990.
Troy, Gil. Affairs of State: The Rise and
Rejection of the Presidential Couple Since World War II. New York: The Free Press, 1997.
Weidenfeld, Sheila Rabb. First Lady's Lady:
With the Fords at the White House. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979.
