The Kingdom of Speech
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The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. The Kingdom of Speech 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 (1930-2018) was a founding member of the New Journalism movement and the author of modern classics including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as novels like The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. He wrote for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine as a reporter, and is credited with coining the term The Me Decade. Tom received the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Achievement, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Outstanding Contribution to American Literature, among many other awards. He received his B.A. from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. graduating with honors and a Ph.D. from Washington and Lee University.
at Yale University, where he majored in American studies. He was a New York City resident.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316404624 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316404624 |
| Title | The Kingdom of Speech |
| Author | Tom Wolfe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little Brown and Company |
| Year published | 2016-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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