Romney
eBook - ePub

Romney

A Reckoning

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Romney

A Reckoning

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Prologue
  6. Chapter One: The Body Upstream
  7. Chapter Two: ā€œThis Means Somethingā€
  8. Chapter Three: Hurry
  9. Chapter Four: Emergencies and Catastrophes
  10. Chapter Five: What It Took
  11. Chapter Six: The Tar Pit
  12. Chapter Seven: Heist
  13. Chapter Eight: 50.1 Percent
  14. Chapter Nine: Just the Beginning
  15. Chapter Ten: Vox
  16. Chapter Eleven: Turning and Turning
  17. Chapter Twelve: The Punch Bowl
  18. Chapter Thirteen: Conviction
  19. Chapter Fourteen: 2020
  20. Chapter Fifteen: The Cathedral and the Gargoyle
  21. Chapter Sixteen: New Friends
  22. Chapter Seventeen: ā€œWhat We Used to Beā€
  23. Epilogue
  24. Author’s Note
  25. About the Author
  26. Notes
  27. Index
  28. Copyright