Myra Gutin recounts Barbara Bush’s four years as first lady. Professor Gutin argues that Mrs. Bush was more politically astute and successful than her husband and details the former first lady’s deft understanding of public relations. Ms. Gutin’s presentation in Ketcham Hall of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Building in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 2011, was part of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society’s noon Women’s History Month Book Signing Series.