Edwin P. McClain
Author / Humanitarian Worker / Witness
Some books begin with certainty. This one begins with a question: how much of what we remember is true, and how much is the story we needed to tell?
Edwin P. McClain spent years working in humanitarian operations across conflict zones and fragile states — the Balkans, Iraq, Southeast Asia, and beyond. His memoir, Confidence of Memory, traces those years and wrestles honestly with what memory preserves, what it distorts, and what it quietly discards. He is also co-author, with W. R. Hyde, of Cascades of History: How Small Decisions Shape Civilizations — a collection of thirty-eight historical vignettes examining the turning points on which the modern world pivoted.
Edwin P. McClain writes where memory and history meet — a personal memoir of years in humanitarian work, and a wide-angle history of the small decisions that shaped the modern world. Both ask the same question: how the stories we tell become the truths we live by.
