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[laughter] myra macpherson: i used to hate public speaking, and i would get anxiety, and i still do, but i was at a speech and a woman was in the front row and she was smiling, so i found myself playing to her. all of you remember jack, my wonderful jack gordon, and he would say it all matters about the 95% and who the hell cares about the other 5%? so i was focusing on this woman and finally i got so angry at the end of this q&a and i was wondering what her problem was and so i asked the woman next to her, and she said, oh, she is him germany from germany she doesn t understand a word you are saying. so i wanted to focus on these sisters, because they were incredible female lecturers of their time. but at the beginning, they both almost fainted when they first started to speak, and i thought maybe this is an interesting story. maybe they developed this amazing skill without anything behind this and it is just one little person on a huge stage and when tennie the youn ....
janet was referring to, you know, the moral injury, people pay more and more attention to that, and let s note pretend this only exists on the military side of the equation. there s trama and disability in the world as well. to me, you might disagree, but, to me, it s the commonality here is once something happens in your life, whether it s a single event or accumulation of things, but there s some it s not just trauma, but something happens that just rattles you down to the bones. what do you do then? succumb to it or busy trying to recover. ptsd, civilian or military, one of the guys said, you know, life comes with trauma, and trauma necessarily comes from a sense of recovery. that s what we do, and to get back to the idea to be careful here because of the notion of perpetuating the stereotype of the imroaken soldier. that s there are broken soldiers from these wars. does not mean they are forever broken. probably most of them, throughout history, will not be, but ....
i want you also to note that at the end of the session 10 or 15 minutes before the end we will be taking questions from the audience. there is a microphone set up in one of the isles and if you are immobile reach her hand and we the mic to you. let me start with myra macpherson. she is an author and a veteran journalist. she has had many years of the washington post writing for the paper s legendary style section. she has interviewed serial killers, celebrities, international leaders like cuba s fidel castro and when she was in and then she interviewed president kennedy. i was four. she wrote for the post on vietnam veterans and led her to write her groundbreaking book groundbreaking book long time passing vietnam and the junta generation one of the first books about the first to examine the insidious problem of ptsd. in 2006 she wrote all governments lie, the life and times of rebel journalist i have stoned and she has also delved into intimate topics and she c ....
theedd4m struggle for, to use of the arabic words, karama dignity throughout the region. this isn t going away, and there are many historical events that are going to unfold in the years and decades to come that i think are going to rock these regimes or induce them to come to terms with the demands for dignity, accountability and popular sovereignty. so we re going to have to do another edition of this book, mark. that s the one thing i think we can say for sure. [laughter] mark, my co-editor, thank you very much. all of the staff at the journal of democracy, the national endowment for democracy and our three panelists, thank you all. [applause] [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. from the 2014 los angeles times festival of books, a panel discussion on feminism. it s a little over an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible ....
all this and more on this memorial day weekend, three days of booktv, television for serious readers. for more information and this weekend s television schedule visit us online at booktv.org. booktv continueues. myra macpherson recounts the lives of sisters victoria ward hall and tennessee class of, whose professional pollutes pursuits challenge the mail status quo. this is about 40 minutes. i am supposed to be wired for sound. one of my dear friends when i did my last book on i s stone, he used to say is there any sex in this? and a little louder, i just had sex and scandal. i really hate it used to make me so incredibly nervous but i got a lesson once when i was speaking to a group, a rather large group and there was a woman in the front end she was smiling like this. so i found myself playing to her. you all remember jeff, 95% of voting, wondered who was the other side person. i was playing to this woman because everyone else was being nice. i got the end of t ....