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David Chrisinger writes about how true stories, told carefully and honestly, change what people understand and what they do. His subjects include Ernie Pyle, whose columns brought the Second World War home to American readers; Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz, who kept a secret diary inside Dachau on scavenged index cards; and ordinary citizens learning to turn their own experience into stories that move lawmakers.

Chrisinger is the Executive Director of the Writing Workshop at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. He has taught policy writing for nearly two decades, starting at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. His writing on war, memory, and public life has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and other na
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Writing Against the Reich by David Chrisinger
“That is how this story ends—not with closure but with accountability; not with healing—not really—but with recognition; not with silence but with a record that survived long enough to be heard.”
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The Soldier's Truth by David Chrisinger
“I cannot tell you personally what it is like to go to war. I've never been to war. What I can tell you is this: I know what it looks like when a man comes home from war and never finds that path that could lead him to a life of peace.”
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“It was at that point that I started probing them about what they wanted from America. Here's what they told me: "We want our kids to go out and play. We want them to go out and play and not feel like they're going to get hurt. I want my kid to not be on the computer all day long. I want him to go outside and play. I want him to not be on computer games. I want my kids to go to school. I want my wife to be happy. I want..."
"That's what we cant back home," I said.
"Why would it be so different?" he said. Why would you think that what I want in my quality of life is so vastly different from yours?”
― David Chrisinger, See Me for Who I Am: Student Veterans' Stories of War and Coming Home

“That is how this story ends—not with closure but with accountability; not with healing—not really—but with recognition; not with silence but with a record that survived long enough to be heard.”
― David Chrisinger, Writing Against the Reich: The Secret Diary of Dachau

“I cannot tell you personally what it is like to go to war. I've never been to war. What I can tell you is this: I know what it looks like when a man comes home from war and never finds that path that could lead him to a life of peace.”
― David Chrisinger, The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II

“The goal is not to stop the story so the evidence can speak. The goal is to let the evidence finish a sentence the story has already begun.”
― David Chrisinger, More Than Personal: Transform Your Lived Experience into Political Change

“I cannot tell you personally what it is like to go to war. I've never been to war. What I can tell you is this: I know what it looks like when a man comes home from war and never finds that path that could lead him to a life of peace.”
― David Chrisinger, The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II

“That is how this story ends—not with closure but with accountability; not with healing—not really—but with recognition; not with silence but with a record that survived long enough to be heard.”
― David Chrisinger, Writing Against the Reich: The Secret Diary of Dachau

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