McKay Coppins is a staff writer at The Atlantic where he covers politics, religion, and national affairs. He is the author of The Wilderness, a book about the battle for the future of the Republican Party, and he has been a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics. He won the Aldo Beckman Award from the White House Correspondents Association for his coverage of the Trump presidency, and the Wilbur Award for religion journalism. He lives near Washington, DC, with his wife and children.
"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ""Revealing...Romney: A Reckoning is in many ways a straightforward biography, but it has the intimacy of a small subgenre of political confessions...throughout Coppins's narrative Trump, the supposed billionaire, morphs from comic relief into devouring nemesis....While should-have-known-better Republican colleagues waffled...Romney kept his head above the fetid waters."" --Tom Mallon, New York Times ""[A] probing biography...a penetrating analysis of the ongoing Republican civil war through the eyes of one of its last embattled centrists."" --Publishers Weekly ""A complex book about a complex man, one that provides an unusually revelatory look at a prominent political figure's private views and inner conflicts."" --Boston Globe ""A memorable distillation of a life in politics, of the tension between high principle and unseemly justification. It's a tension Romney has navigated better than most, in part for his willingness to acknowledge its existence."" --Carlos Lozada, New York Times ""A rare feat in modern-day political reporting: an account in which the subject engages in actual introspection."" --New Yorker ""A scoop-rich biography...An especially clear window onto the forces that over the last decade have transformed the GOP....Coppins gained extraordinary access...The tell-all tales gush forth."" --Los Angeles Times ""An astonishing, nearly unprecedented catalog of intraparty critique... it's also, and maybe all the more importantly, a deft study of the capacity for rationalization...this is what makes this book so interesting, and also important."" --Politico ""Rare access...a reminder that meritocratic success in business is not easily translatable into democratic politics. What lessons should one draw from a wealthy, talented and decent man who attempts to lead a political party in the throes of a populist revolt? Above all, take care not to sacrifice one's family, faith, and integrity."" --Wall Street Journal ""The soon-to-be ex-senator shared a vast trove with biographer McKay Coppins for this book [which] has already scored in the marketplace of tittle-tattle, yielding several items worthy of Page Six, if not Page One. Coppins adds considerable value."" --Washington Post"