The Books We Needed in 2022

Illustration credit: Mother Jones. Book reviews by Mother Jones Staff. Mother Jones – December 15, 2022.

The best nonfiction, novels, and cookbooks published this year—and some older reads that resonated anew.

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“Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today”

by Craig McNamara

NONFICTION Lots of people have daddy issues. But it’s not often you come across a memoir written by someone whose father was the primary architect of the Vietnam War. Craig McNamara, a walnut farmer, sustainable agricultural leader, and son of John F. Kennedy’s Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, writes a brutal and intimate story about a son confronting his father’s legacy of destruction […]

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