Binding: Hardcover
Description: " A rollicking unexpectedly affecting story It's going to be one of the big buzzy Beltway books of the year." - Politico A bridge - burning riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129 - billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media - from a man who used to pull the strings and who is now pulling back the curtain. After nearly two decades in the Washington PR business Elwood wants to come clean by exposing the dark underbelly of the very industry that's made him so successful. The first step is revealing exactly what he's been up to for the past twenty years - and it isn't pretty. Elwood has worked for a murderer's row of questionable clients including Gaddafi Assad and the government of Qatar. In All the Worst Humans Elwood unveils how the PR business works and how the truth gets made spun and sold to the public - not shying away from the gritty details of his unlikely career. This is a piercing look into the corridors of money power politics and control all told in Elwood's disarmingly funny and entertaining voice. He recounts a four - day Las Vegas bacchanal with a dictator's son plotting communications strategies against a terrorist organization in Western Africa and helping to land a Middle Eastern dictator's wife a glowing profile in Vogue on the same time the Arab Spring broke out. And he reveals all his slippery tricks for seducing journalists in order to create chaos and ultimately cover for politicians dictators and spies - the industry - secret tactics that led to his rise as a political PR pro. Along the way Phil walks the halls of the Capitol rides in armored cars through Abuja and watches his client lose his annual income at the roulette table. But as he moved up the ranks he felt worse and worse about the sleaziness of it all - until Elwood receives a shocking wake - up call from the FBI. This risky game nearly cost Elwood his life and his freedom. Seeing the light Elwood decides to change his ways and his clients and to tell the full truth about who is the worst human.
Title: All The Worst Humans How I Made News For Dictators Tycoons And Politicians
Author(s): Elwood Phil
Publisher: Henry Holt And Co.
Barcode: 9781250321572
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/25/2024
Category: Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military