Hello, you're listening to NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Timby-Armius.

Today, two books about lawmakers with deeply conservative political beliefs, a Republican

party that's changed around them, and the marginalization they faced as a result. In a minute,

we'll hear more about the book Romney, a reckoning, a biography of senator and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

But first, former Congressman Adam Kinzinger became a household named during the second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

In this interview with all things considered host Scott Detrow, Kinzinger recounts what it took for him to stand up to Trump

in the days following the January 6th attack of the U.S. Capitol,

and how, ultimately, that decision cost him his job.

But his new memoir, Renegade, is also more.

It's an honest look at the ways in which Kinsinger contributed to the rise of Trump.

And he also talks about whether he thinks he'll ever return to politics.

Here's Scott Detrow.

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podcasts. The introduction of your book, like I could just envision it, you sitting there with the TV

on watching the initial 15 rounds of votes to put Kevin McCarthy into the speakership as

you finished up the book and wrote that introduction.

I'm assuming you were not surprised at all when he was eventually ousted from the job,

given all the compromises he made to get it. No, I think that writing was on the wall. When you cut a deal with

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