Pursuits
Lanny Davis's 'Crisis Tales': The Art of Distortion
A former Obama speechwriter and co-creator of the NBC comedy 1600 Penn takes on Washington spin master Lanny Davis
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Has a passenger died aboard your cruise ship? Have you been accused of insider trading? Have you led a corrupt and violent African regime? If you answered yes to any of these questions—or think that one day you might—then I’ve got a 381-page book for you.
On second thought, it’s best not to approach Crisis Tales, by Lanny Davis, as a “book” but rather as a lengthy advertisement to prospective clients who might avail themselves of Davis’s services as an attorney and crisis communicator. In it, Davis goes through “the five rules of crisis management,” using case studies to teach PR lessons such as “get ahead of the story” and “fight for the truth using law, media, and politics.”