In 2017, he released his first and to date only fiction novel, True Allegiance. In 2013, Threshold Editions published Shapiro's fifth book, Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans. Shapiro also became a fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. In the book, the producers of Happy Days and M*A*S*H say they pursued a pro-pacifist, anti-Vietnam-War agenda in those series. In 2011, HarperCollins published Shapiro's fourth book, Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV, in which Shapiro argues that Hollywood has a left-wing agenda that it actively promotes through prime-time entertainment programming. In his first book Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth (2004), Shapiro argues that the American Left has ideological dominance over universities and that professors do not tolerate non-left opinions. He started a nationally syndicated column when he was 17 and had written two books by age 21. Shapiro became interested in politics at a young age. As of March 2012, he ran an independent legal consultancy firm, Benjamin Shapiro Legal Consulting, in Los Angeles. Finding very little to do there, he quit after 10 months. CareerĪfter graduating law school, he then worked at the law offices of Goodwin Procter. Afterwards, he attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 2007 with a J.D., cum laude. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2004, at age 20, with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in political science and membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Skipping two grades (third and ninth), Shapiro went from Walter Reed Middle School in The Valley to Yeshiva University High School of Los Angeles in Westside, Los Angeles, where he graduated in 2000 at age 16. His mother was a TV company executive, and his father David Shapiro worked as a composer. He started playing violin at a young age and performed at the Israel Bonds Banquet in 1996 at twelve years of age. When he was 9 years old, his family transitioned to Orthodox Judaism. Shapiro was born in Los Angeles, California, to a Conservative Jewish family of Russian-Jewish and Lithuanian-Jewish ancestry.
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