Ben Stein has had what may be the most diverse career of anyone now on the national scene. He is in every sense a Renaissance Man. He has been an award winning actor, economist, writer, journalist and teacher, and is equally well-known in America's board rooms and in America's dormitories and fraternity houses. He is certainly the only man to be a famous, humorous teacher about economics and law.

Ben Stein was born November 25, 1944 in Washington, D.C. and is the son of the economist and writer Herbert Stein. He graduated from Columbia University in 1966 with honors in economics and from Yale Law School in 1970 as class valedictorian. While at Yale, he helped to found the Journal of Law and Social Policy. He has worked as a poverty lawyer, a trade regulations trial lawyer and a university adjunct at American University, the University of California at Santa Cruz and at Pepperdine University. At American University, he taught about the political and social content of mass culture. He also taught the same subject at UCSC, as well as about political and civil rights under the Constitution. At Pepperdine, he has taught about libel law, securities law and ethical issues since 1986.

In 1973 and 1974, he was a speech writer and lawyer for Richard Nixon at The White House and then for Gerald Ford. (He did NOT write the line, "I am not a crook.") He has been a columnist and editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal and a syndicated columnist for The Los Angeles Herald Examiner and King Features Syndicate. Ben is a frequent contributor to Barrons, where his articles about the ethics of management buyouts and issues of fraud in the Milken Drexel junk bond scheme drew major national attention. He has been a regular columnist for Los Angeles Magazine, New York Magazine and E! Online. He has written a lengthy diary for ten years for The American Spectator and also writes frequently for The Washington Post and almost every other imaginable magazine.

He has written and published 16 books: 7 novels largely about life in Los Angeles and 9 nonfiction books about finance, ethical and social issues in finance and the political and social content of mass culture. He has done pioneering work in uncovering the concealed messages of TV and in explaining how TV and movies get made. Ben has also been a longtime screenwriter, writing, among many other scripts, the outlines of the lengthy miniseries "Amerika" as well as the acclaimed film "Murder in Mississippi."

Ben is also an extremely well-known actor in movies, TV and commercials. His part of the boring teacher in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" was recently ranked as one of the 50 most famous scenes in American film. From 1997-2002, he was the host of the Comedy Central quiz show, "Win Ben Stein's Money," which won seven Emmy Awards. He appears regularly on the Fox News Channel talking about finance.

Books by Ben Stein...
26 Steps to Succeed In Hollywood...or Any Other Business	How Successful People Win: Using Bunkhouse Logic to Get What You Want in Life	How to Ruin Your Life	Yes, You Can Still Retire Comfortably! The Baby-Boom Retirement Crisis and How to Beat It	Can America Survive? The Rage of the Left, the Truth, and What to Do About It