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GIF: "Emperor of all Maladies" and "The Gene" -- books by Siddhartha Mukherjee

 

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Can We THINK Our Way Out of Cancer?

Monday
3-27-17
7:00 PM

Public Lecture
Gusman Concert Hall
Public Invited
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“Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer-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 the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost. . . . Thanks to Dr. Mukherjee’s remarkably clear and compelling prose, the reader has a fighting chance of arriving at the story of today’s genetic manipulations with an actual understanding of both the immensely complicated science and the even more complicated moral questions.” — New York Times Science Section

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