The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe

The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe

The maestro storyteller and reporter provocatively argues that what we think we know about speech and human evolution is wrong.
A whooping, joy-filled and hyperbolic raid on, of all things, the theory of evolution. (Dwight Garner, New York Times)
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech--not evolution--is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements.

From Alfred Russel Wallace, the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it, and through the controversial work of modern-day anthropologist Daniel Everett, who defies the current wisdom that language is hard-wired in humans, Wolfe examines the solemn, long-faced, laugh-out-loud zig-zags of Darwinism, old and Neo, and finds it irrelevant here in the Kingdom of Speech.

TOM WOLFE is the author of more than a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York City.

Dylan Baker's first audiobook recording was for The Grapes of Wrath, which subsequently won both Audie and Earphones Awards. He has since narrated several audio books, including Tom Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons, Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, and Michael Lewis's Flash Boys. In 2002, he won an Audie Award for Abridged Fiction for Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections.

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ISBN 13	9780316404624
ISBN 10	0316404624
Title	The Kingdom of Speech
Author	Tom Wolfe
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little Brown and Company
Year published	2016-08-30
Number of pages	192
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