"The most interesting and portentous biological experiment of the 20th century authoritatively described by one of the three principal executants." --Sir Peter Medawar

"The education of the transforming principle, i.s., genes, as DNA ranks with the contributions of Darwin and Mendel. Here is the chronicle of that revolutionary advance in biology told in eloquently humble fashion by one of the insiders . . . . This work gives another glimpse into the daily joys and frustrations of the scientific life, a story rarely told with such directness and candor." --Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D.,...