The list below is a selection of published books, articles, and other media containing information about Mrs. Ford’s life and her role as First Lady.

  • Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. First Ladies:  The Saga of the Presidents' Wives and their Power, 1961-1990. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991.
  • "Betty Ford: The Real Deal" MacNeill/Lehrer Productions, 2009 (DVD).
  • Black, Allida M. The First Ladies of the United States of America. Washington, DC: The White House Historical Association, 2013.
  • 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.
  • Brower, Kate Andersen. First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies. New York: Harper Books, 2016.
  • Caroli, Betty Boyd. First Ladies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
  • Carter, Rosalynn. First Lady from Plains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
  • Ford, Betty. Glad Awakening. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987.
  • _____.  Healing and Hope. New York: Putnam’s Sons, 2003.
  • _____. The Times of My Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
  • 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.
  • Hummer, Jill Abraham. First Ladies and American Women: In Politics and at Home. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2017.
  • Knopf-Newman, Marcy Jane. Beyond Slash, Burn, and Poison:  Transforming Breast Cancer Stories into Action. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
  • McCubbin, Lisa. Betty Ford: First Lady, Women's Advocate, Survivor, Trailblazer. New York: Gallery Books, 2018.
  • Phillips, Victoria. Martha Graham’s Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • 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.
  • Rudd, Lisa Marie. For Women and Themselves: Lou Hoover, Betty Ford and the Women's Movement of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. PhD. The University of Maine, 2015.
  • 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.