Description: Ben Stein is the father of a beautiful, golden-haired boy named Tommy, and their relationship is the single most important thing in Ben's busy, career-driven life. But this was not always the case.

Stein, a devoted son to his aging parents, was initially unprepared to devote his life to fatherhood. "When my son first entered our lives", he writes, "I thought he would be a burden". With wry wit and disarming frankness, Stein describes how his complicated feelings about Tommy soon gave way to the overwhelming love and tenderness a father feels for his son -- and how he truly became a "dad".

Stein is unfailingly modest, self-effacing, and at times, sharply self-critical. But while he is hard on himself, he is also hard on other members of his generation, fellow Baby Boomers whose pursuit of self-gratification has all too often come at the expense of their children. Through his moving, often amusing narrative, he attempts to persuade his careerist contemporaries that being a parent is, by far, the world's greatest job

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