
Romney
A Reckoning
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Davis
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McKay Coppins
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McKay Coppins
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In this illuminating and “scoop-rich biography…the tell-all tales rush forth” (Los Angeles Times) offering a “penetrating analysis of the ongoing Republican civil war through the eyes of one of its last embattled centrists” (Publishers Weekly).
Few figures in American politics have seen more and said less than Mitt Romney. An outspoken dissident in Donald Trump’s GOP, he has made headlines in recent years for standing alone against the forces he believes are poisoning the party he once led. Romney was the first senator in history to vote to remove from office a president of his own party. When that president’s supporters went on to storm the US Capitol, Romney delivered a thundering speech from the Senate floor accusing his fellow Republicans of stoking insurrection. Despite these moments of public courage, Romney has shared very little about what he’s witnessed behind the scenes over his three decades in politics—in GOP cloakrooms and caucus lunches, in his private meetings with Donald Trump and his family, in his dealings with John McCain, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, Joe Manchin, and Kyrsten Sinema. Now, Romney provides a window to his most private thoughts.
Based on dozens of interviews with Romney, his family, and his inner circle as well as hundreds of pages of his personal journals and private emails, this in-depth portrait by award-winning journalist McKay Coppins shows a public servant authentically wrestling with the choices he has made over his career. In lively, revelatory detail, the book traces Romney’s early life and rise through the ranks of a fast-transforming Republican Party and exposes how a trail of seemingly small compromises by political leaders has led to a crisis in democracy. “A rare feat in modern-day political reporting” (The New Yorker), Romney: A Reckoning is a redemptive story about a complex politician who summoned his moral courage just as fear and divisiveness were overtaking American life.
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Critic reviews
“Remarkable. Tapping hours of interviews and access to Mitt Romney’s private journals—and revealing a captivating array of insider moments—author McKay Coppins compellingly portrays a man wrestling with his conscience as he tries to do what’s right.”—Susan Page, Washington Bureau chief at USA Today and author of Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power
“An extraordinary biography. Much of the fun comes from eavesdropping on the shameless things the political class is apt to say behind closed doors. The chance to inhabit those rooms is frequently as entertaining as it is depressing.”—Mark Leibovich, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers This Town and Thank You for Your Servitude
“As the emerging Edward Gibbon of American conservatism, McKay Coppins has written an important, vivid, and memorable portrait of that rare Republican soul who has had the courage to choose the difficult over the easy path in our tumultuous age. Mitt Romney is not perfect, but he has put principle above the strictly partisan in hours when virtually no one else had the wherewithal to do so. This is an essential book for our times.”—Jon Meacham, author of the New York Times bestsellers And There Was Light and The Soul of America
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Political and intellectual biography at its best!
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While Romney had no editing power in this book, I’m already finding more respect for what he’s done in public service and the amount of character this man has maintained through it all.
Whether you like Romney or not, this read should be thought provoking and keep you thinking about where we can choose to go as Americans.
Great listen as an election year is coming up
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Very insightful
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Surprisingly Entertaining
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Changed Mind
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Self-reflection and integrity
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How today’s political climate punishes integrity
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He deserves our respect
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I loved this book, and found myself wishing it was much longer. Mitt is the sort of statesman that we need in America today, He would have made an incredible President and I often wonder what the world would be like now if Mitt had served as a 2-term president. I truly think the world would be a much better place. I am just so glad that he still has the drive and energy to attempt changing the course of a downward-spiraling America through the formation of an independent group of political thinkers.
I liked everything about this book, including the unfettered access that the author had to Mitt and his journals, as well as the excellent narration. I just hope there is a part two, since Mitt has so much more to offer the world!
This book went by WAY too quickly!
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I abandoned my affiliation with the Republican Party years ago, around the same time I resigned from the Mormon church, as too many of the core values, including the ‘bottom line’ of both institutions, have become repugnant to me. But I still mourn the ‘what-ifs’ of Mr. Romney’s failed campaigns.
We desperately need people of honor and this depth of character to restore faith and hope in our political governing systems.
If this book is made into a docuseries, they should cast Billy Crudup (Cory Ellison, from The Morning Show) as Mitt Romney!
Hindsight, Insight, and Foresight!
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