From the Pulitzer Prize&ndash\;winning aut hor of The Emperor of All Maladies&mdash\;a fascinating history of the gen e and &ldquo\;a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously\, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick&rdquo\; (Elle).
\n&ldquo \;Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History\, in which he braids science\, history\, and memoir into an epic with all th e range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost&rdquo\; (The New York Times) . In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives\, personalities\, iden tities\, fates\, and choices.
\n&ldquo\;Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories&hellip\;[and] swaddles his m edical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness\, surprising vulnerability\, and oc casional flashes of pure poetry&rdquo\; (The Washington Post). Throughout\ , the story of Mukherjee&rsquo\;s own family&mdash\;with its tragic and be wildering history of mental illness&mdash\;reminds us of the questions tha t hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the labo ratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose\, he describes th e centuries of research and experimentation&mdash\;from Aristotle and Pyth agoras to Mendel and Darwin\, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick\, Watson and Franklin\, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century inn ovators who mapped the human genome.
\n&ldquo\;A fascinating and oft en sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are&mdash\;and what our manipulation of those genes migh t mean for our future&rdquo\; (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)\, The Gene is t he revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life\ , the most crucial science of our time\, intimately explained by a master. &ldquo\;The Gene is a book we all should read&rdquo\; (USA TODAY).
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