New York: Harper & Row, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - When Ben Stein arrived in Los Angeles in 1976, he had shaken off 30 years of doing the right thing - this book is 'the actual diary of the year of bizarre adventures in which he shed his caterpillar self to emerge as the winged and winging creature he was meant to be' - a year of wheeler-dealers, golden girls, the coke and the crazies - the wonder of LA. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0140712.