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The Book Show #1453 - Siddhartha Mukherjee

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published May 24, 2016 at 3:10 PM EDT
Book Cover - The Gene

  Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies. He has now written the history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to “read” and “write” our own genetic information?

His new book is The Gene: An Intimate History. 
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