Dzhill Bayden, pervaya ledi SSHA, zhena prezidenta Dzho Baydena, otkrovenno rasskazyvaet o tom, skolkih dushevnyh sil potrebovalo postroenie semi i sobstvennoy zhizni. Ot veselyh rozygryshey v yunosti do zalozhennyh eyu semeynyh traditsiy, kotorye pomogali preodolet tragedii i krizisy: razvod, bolezn i neudachi muzha, smert pasynka... Eto napolnennaya energiey ispoved zhenschiny, garmonichno i s dostoinstvom ispolnyayuschey mnozhestvo roley: materi, zheny, uchitelnitsy i suprugi krupnogo politika. V knige malo politicheskogo soderzhaniya, a osnovnoe vnimanie udelyaetsya lichnoy zhizni, lyubvi i semeynym otnosheniyam.