Author: Craig McNamara

The Sins of My Father

As a Yolo County organic walnut farmer and a longtime leader in California agriculture, Craig McNamara—pictured at below as a teenager in the White House in 1968—has devoted his career to practicing sustainable farming, feeding the hungry, and growing the next generation of farmers as the founder of the highly acclaimed Center for Land-Based Learning. But in his new memoir Because Our Fathers Lied, excerpted below, he recounts his deeply complicated and conflicted relationship with his father, Robert McNamara—the chief architect of the Vietnam War and one of the most controversial political figures in American history.