Book · 2010 · Nonfiction
The Emperor of all Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
Scribner (Simon & Schuster) · 571 pages
★ 5.5 editorial score
Cancer gets a full biography, traced from an Egyptian physician's papyrus to the leukemia ward where Mukherjee treats a young kindergarten teacher. He makes the invention of chemotherapy read like a war.
