Romney: A Reckoning
by McKay Coppins
View on GoodreadsAtlantic writer McKay Coppins's biography of Mitt Romney, built on extensive interviews and unprecedented access to Romney's private journals and emails — capturing the senator's increasingly grim view of the post-Trump Republican Party from inside it.
Core ideas
- The journals are the killer material: Romney's contemporaneous reactions to private conversations with colleagues he names (Ron Johnson, Josh Hawley, J.D. Vance, others) describing what they say privately vs. publicly about Trump.
- Romney's diagnostic of the party — that a significant majority of his Senate colleagues privately believed the 2020 election wasn't stolen but feared the political consequences of saying so — gives institutional content to the GOP-cowardice claim.
- The book is also a personal reckoning: Romney's own evolution from defender to critic of the party, including his honest self-account of past compromises.
Published2023
Pages416
ISBN9781982196233
ReadNov 2023
