'A great journalist with a whip-like satirical prose style Wolfe's great gift is to make the heavy seem light & this book is such an entertaining polemic that I read it in a day & immediately wanted to read it again'
- Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times Tom Wolfe whose legend began in journalism takes us on an eye-opening journey through language The Kingdom of Speech is a paradigm-shifting argument that speech
- not evolution
- is responsible for humanity's complex societies & achievements From Alfred Russel Wallace the Englishman who beat Darwin to the theory of natural selection but later renounced it & 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 & Neo & finds it irrelevant here in our Kingdom of Speech