Barry Werth

Amazon Best of the Month, January 2009: Banquet at Delmonico's is a fascinating look at how the theory of evolution provided a much-needed challenge to 19th-century America. Although evolution itself was hardly a new concept--scholars had pondered transmutation and common descent for centuries--naturalist Charles …

In this timely and much praised book, Barry Werth draws upon inside reporting that spans more than two decades. He provides a groundbreaking close-up of the upstart pharmaceutical company Vertex and the ferocious but indispensable world of Big Pharma that it inhabits.In 1989, the charismatic Joshua Boger left Merck, …

The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin - A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal is a book written by Barry Werth.