McKay Coppins's 'Romney' offers an unprecedented window into Mitt Romney's political career through the senator's personal journals and extensive interviews. Coppins, a staff writer at The Atlantic, gained remarkable access to Romney during a period when the senator was wrestling with the transformation of his party. The book follows Romney from his business career at Bain Capital through his presidential campaigns to his vote to impeach Donald Trump, a decision that made him a pariah among many Republicans. What emerges is a portrait of a man whose Mormon faith and patrician background instilled values increasingly at odds with populist conservatism. Coppins captures Romney's private frustrations with colleagues he considered craven and his struggles to balance conviction with political survival. The book is most valuable for Romney's candid assessments of other politicians, including former allies whose capitulation to Trump he found incomprehensible. While Coppins maintains journalistic objectivity, the material naturally presents Romney sympathetically given the contrast with figures the senator criticizes. Readers across the political spectrum will find revealing material about how the Republican Party changed and what those changes cost someone who couldn't make his peace with them.