Former Sen. Jim Talent starts off his discussion of Mitt Romney's book with the caveat that he served as Mitt's Domestic Policy Task Force chair in the '08 campaign.
That being disclosed, he pens a "non-review" for the Daily Caller, one stressing that this is the real Mitt.
Gov. Romney wrote the book himself. To be sure, he solicited suggestions, advice, and edits from a range of advisors and friends (“No Apology” has two pages of acknowledgments) but the book says what Romney wanted to say in the way he wanted to say it.
.... Over the last two years, a number of people have told me that they liked Gov. Romney as a candidate but wondered what really makes him tick.
“No Apology” is the answer. Anyone who reads the book—whether they agree or disagree with its positions—will see the motives that make Romney “tick”: the entrepreneur’s desire to fix what is broken, the lawyer’s passion for organizing information and arguing ideas, the proud husband’s devotion to wife and family, and the unshakable American exceptionalism of a man whose father taught him to love his country.
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