A scoop-rich biography released on the heels of his Senate retirement announcement.

Revealing.

Instructive.

The message of Romney: A Reckoning is not uplifting.

How satisfying is the full 400-page meal? It’s occasionally interesting and often a little bland, like Romney himself.

Coppins’s authorized biography has given the pundit class an excuse to eulogize his career—which Romney can enjoy from the comfort of his Senate office and not beyond the grave.

is new book is a must-read for anyone interested in how the Republican party morphed from the party of Lincoln into a Trumpian mess, picking up where Coppins left off in The Wilderness, his earlier look at the GOP.

Probing.

The writing is solid, and the author provides a useful study of a man who, witnessing the disintegration of his party into demagoguery and lies, decided to stand for the truth. A vigorous, highly readable account of politics—and ethics—in action..