"Here it is at last for all the world to share - the inside story of the ill-fated Butterfield Administration (March 4,1909 - April 4, 1909). And who could tell the tragic tale better than the First Lady herself - Martha Dinwiddie Butterfield, patent medicine heiress, social leader, Nobel Prize winner and haunted hostess of the Executive Mansion for one cataclysmic month." (from inside flap)