Non-Fiction
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Phil Elwood
Henry Holt and Company, NY 2024
PR expert spills the beans. How he expertly manipulated everyone, created alternative facts, and corrupted everything.
The underbelly of the global power structure.
If you wonder what really goes on, this is where.
al-Assad, the World Cup/Qatar vs Clinton n Michelle Obama, Gaddafi.
And more.
Easy read. Horrifying except author is so likable which is why he was so incredibly successful.
Highly recommend.
Ocelot II
(120,776 posts)cbabe
(4,145 posts)IbogaProject
(3,644 posts)OldBoss
(37 posts)If even half of his stories are true - few of us really know how our government and both its elected and unelected officials influence a wide variety of outcomes. The media are just pawns to these PR firms aka fixers. The Qatar World Cup story is scary, tho most of the stories are. Its a quick and entertaining read but its not uplifting. I have no idea how to improve or correct this horrible imbalance of power, though its no longer unique to the US, its a worldwide problem. The Antigua story was crazy too.