The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history.
Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher, a stem
cell biologist and a cancer geneticist. He is the author of The
Laws of Medicine and The Emperor of All Maladies- A Biography of
Cancer, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction and
the Guardian First Book Award.
Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia
University. A Rhodes Scholar, he graduated from Stanford
University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. His
laboratory has identified genes that regulate stem cells, and his
team is internationally recognized for its discovery of skeletal
stem cells and genetic alterations in blood cancers.
He has published work in Nature, Cell, Neuron, The New England
Journal of Medicine, the New York Times and several other magazine
and journals. He lives with his family in New York City.
With a marriage of architectural precision and luscious narrative,
an eye for both the paradoxical detail and the unsettling irony,
and a genius for locating the emotional truths buried in chemical
abstractions, Mukherjee leaves you feeling as though you’ve just
aced a college course for which you’d been afraid to register — and
enjoyed every minute of it
*Washington Post*
[Siddhartha Mukherjee] is the perfect person to guide us through
the past, present, and future of genome science… It is up to all of
us—not just scientists, government officials, and people fortunate
enough to lead foundations—to think hard about these new
technologies and how they should and should not be used. Reading
The Gene will get you the point where you can actively engage in
that debate.
*Gatesnotes*
The Gene is prodigious, sweeping, and ultimately transcendent. If
you’re interested in what it means to be human, today and in the
tomorrows to come, you must read this book.
*Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We
Cannot See*
Dramatic and precise... [A] thrilling and comprehensive account of
what seems certain to be the most radical, controversial and, to
borrow from the subtitle, intimate science of our time... He is a
natural storyteller... A page-turner... Read this book and steel
yourself for what comes next.
*Sunday Times*
The story […] has been told, piecemeal, in different ways, but
never before with the scope and grandeur that Siddhartha Mukherjee
brings to his new history, The Gene. He fully justifies the claim
that it is “one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the
history of science.” … Definitive
*New York Times Book Review*
[The Gene is] destined to soar into the firmament of the year's
must reads, to win accolades and well-deserved prizes, and to set a
new standard for lyrical science writing.
*New York Times*
The Gene is as engaging, powerful and elegant a piece of science
writing as you are likely to read this year… Mukherjee has three
rare talents. The first is a shining prose style quite unlike
anything else in his field… A novelist’s command of narrative and
tone. The third and most unusual talent is an eye for the lustre
among the manifold drudgeries of research… It takes a skilful
writer to turn all the personalities and patients, data and ideas
into something that is dramatic without being melodramatic… The
Gene succeeds as a compelling story... For this alone, Mukherjee
deserves another part-time Pulitzer.
*The Times*
Mukherjee is an assured, polished wordsmith… This is a big book,
bursting with complex ideas… Well-written, accessible and
entertaining account of one of the most important of all scientific
revolutions, one that is destined to have a fundamental impact on
the lives of generations to come. The Gene is an important guide to
that future.
*Observer*
His sweeping and compellingly told history – and there is no more
accessible and vivid survey available – is about hubristic ambition
as much as stunning achievement.
*Guardian*
Magisterial ... [The Gene] will confirm [Mukherjee] as our era’s
preeminent popular historian of medicine. The Gene boasts an even
more ambitious sweep of human endeavor than its predecessor ...
Mukherjee punctuates his encyclopaedic investigations of collective
and individual heritability, and our closing in on the genetic
technologies that will transform how we will shape our own genome,
with evocative personal anecdotes, deft literary allusions,
wonderfully apt metaphors, and an irrepressible intellectual
brio
*Elle magazine (US)*
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