The Kingdom of Speech.

First Edition of The Kingdom of Speech; Signed by Tom Wolfe

The Kingdom of Speech.

WOLFE, Tom.

Item Number: 135451

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

First edition of this beautifully written book by the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Tom Wolfe on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Keith Hayes. Uncommon signed.

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. "A hundred years from now, the one whose work will still be read - whose work will remain imperishable in the face of any new discoveries - is Wolfe. In the long game, the kingdom belongs to him" (Caitlin Flanagan, New York Times Book Review).

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