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All the Worst Humans

How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons and Politicians

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All the Worst Humans

By: Phil Elwood
Narrated by: Holter Graham
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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.©2024 Phil Elwood (P)2024 Macmillan Audio Corruption & Misconduct Elections & Political Process Politicians Politics & Activism Politics & Government Middle East Funny
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Tells a riveting story of PR work with dictators, private spy agencies and his brushes with the law as a result of engaging with them. Fast paced and fascinating!

Entertaining and unbelievable!

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Phil Elwood and his account is full of hypocrisy. Simultaneously in the conclusion, He states he has only told one lie but hasn't told the truth, he states how he is proud of his work but not of what he has done. You can not have one without the other.

I'm glad he has received the help and medication to support him with his mental illness but this account still screams a lack of accountability and the a cognitive dissonance in that final chapter is the evidence. The work is what he did and the actions he took on belaf of all those awful human beings. He can either own it or distance himself. He does neither in this book.

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