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All The Worst Humans : How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons and Politicians, Hardback Book

All The Worst Humans : How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons and Politicians Hardback

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'I raced through this book and was gripped by every page.'' - Sophie Heawood'Exciting and full of bluster...

A rowdy, dirty-pleasure story.' - Kirkus 'Hilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down.

Indeed, I didn't put it down.' - Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking'A redemption story about becoming a better human, a story Elwood tells with vulnerability, heart, and brutal honesty.' - James Kirchick, New York Times bestselling author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington 'An exhilarating ride through the underbelly of global power structures.' - Ben Smith, author of Traffic and editor in chief of SemaforA 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 clients, including Gaddafi, Assad, and the government of Qatar -namely, the bad guys.

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.

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