First published 2023
Mitt Romney breaks his silence about what he witnessed during thirty years in Republican politics. Award-winning journalist McKay Coppins draws from extensive interviews with Romney, his family, and close associates, plus hundreds of pages from Romney's personal journals and private emails. The book reveals Romney's private thoughts about his encounters with Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain, George W. Bush, Mitch McConnell, Joe Manchin, and Kyrsten Sinema. Romney made history as the first senator to vote for removing a president from his own party. After Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, he delivered a fierce Senate floor speech condemning fellow Republicans for encouraging insurrection. Coppins traces Romney's journey from his early years through his rise in a rapidly changing Republican Party. The biography shows how small compromises by political leaders accumulated into a democratic crisis. Romney emerges as a politician who found his moral courage when fear and division consumed American politics.
Genres: biography, american, political-science, politics, united-states, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: moral-courage, political-crisis
Period: 21st Century
416 pages · Hardcover · Scribner