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Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Russian Jewish family.

His father, Sam Sagan, was a Russian immigrant garment worker; his mother, Rachel Molly Gruber, a housewife.

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The story of fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution transforming matter and life into consciousness, of how science and civilisation grew up together.

Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable.

Carl Sagan's fictional account of what it might be like if SETI finds evidence of extraterrestial life.

This book takes a fascinating look at all aspects of the life of Carl Sagan: Sagan the working scientist, who was an inspired and creative participant in the.

Carl was named in honor of Rachel's biological mother, Chaiya Clara, in Sagan's words, "the mother she never knew". Sagan graduated from Rahway High School in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1951.

He had one sister, Carol, and the family lived in a modest apartment near the Atlantic Ocean, in Bensonhurst, a Brooklyn neighborhood.

According to Sagan, they were Reform Jews, the most liberal of the three main Jewish groups. Both Sagan and his sister agree that their father was not especially religious, but that their mother "definitely believed in God, and was active in the temple .

This brings the book's themes on faith versus science full circle, pun intended.

. . and served only Kosher meat." During the height of the Depression, his father had to accept a job as a theatre usher.

According to biographer Keay Davidson, Sagan's "inner war" was a result of h