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 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.
