The Gene

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee ’ s new book Song of the Cell ! From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies —a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” ( Elle ). “Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the futu