All The Worst Humans

Shady Confessions of a PR Fixer
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All The Worst Humans

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.

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Hilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking

Might be a career-destroying book... highly enjoyable Daily Telegraph

A spin doctor to the rich and corrupt spills his secrets... starts with the crack of a Jack Reacher thriller The New York Times

The man who used to pull the strings of the global media is now pulling back the curtain: a bridge-burning, riotous confession by a top PR operative who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media.

After nearly two decades in the PR business, Phil 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 β€” and it isn't pretty.

From helping win the Qatar World Cup bid to a four-day Las Vegas bacchanal with a dictator's son, and helping to land a Middle Eastern dictator's wife a glowing profile in Vogue at the same time the Arab Spring broke out, Elwood reveals all his slippery tricks for seducing journalists in order to create chaos and cover for politicians, dictators, and spies.

But as Phil moved up the ranks, he felt worse and worse about the sleaziness of it all β€” and his role in it β€” until he received a shocking wake-up call from the FBI. This risky game nearly cost Phil his life and his freedom. Seeing the light, he has decided to tell the full truth about who is the worst human.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781805462255

Publisher: Atlantic Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 July 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Atlantic Books

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Phil Elwood is a public relations operative. He was born in New York City, grew up in Idaho, and moved to Washington, DC at age twenty to intern for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He completed his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, and his graduate studies at the London School of Economics before starting his career at a small PR firm. Over the last two decades, Elwood has worked for some of the top - and bottom - PR firms in Washington. He lives in DC.

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