Pass My Imperfections Lightly By

But that definition is much too simple. There were other sides to this complex personality

Her awareness of the political pulse of this country was instrumental in the election of her husband as president

Her ego-driven idea of what the leader of a nation should be changed the White House from a "countrified plantation" into a figurehead residence fit for a president

She was an emancipated woman long before her husband began the emancipation of another minority

The final horror of her husband's death and her incarceration as insane are re-lived by a woman, not an historical figure

For all her faults, Mary Todd Lincoln was in many was the first first lady, a woman who insisted that her voice be heard

Pass My Imperfections Lightly By is a dramatic examination of a unique personality which history tends to simplify