Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Kingdom of Speech
meets  and , reviewed by ''Kirkus Reviews'' - "Typically, Wolfe throws a Molotov cocktail at conventional wisdom in a book that won’t settle any argument but is sure to start some."https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tom-wolfe/the-kingdom-of-speech/, ''Publishers Weekly'' - "Wolfe is at his best when portraying the lives of the scientists and their respective eras, and his vibrant study manages to be clever, funny, serious, satirical, and instructive."http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-316-40462-4, ''Library Journal''(a short one) - "Here, he works his way from Alfred Russel Wallace, who thought up the theory of natural selection before Darwin but then renounced it, to contemporary anthropologist Daniel Everett’s upset-the-apple-cart claim that language is not hardwired, to make the eye-popping assertion that human achievement and complex social structure are owing not to evolution but to speech."http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2016/02/prepub/picks/nadia-hashimi-ann-hood-tom-wolfe-more-barbaras-picks-aug-2016-pt-2/, and by ''The Times''http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-kingdom-of-speech-by-tom-wolfe-qmwt9p89w, and ''Booklist'' and a longer review in ''Publishers Weekly''https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/2005817/Reviews, ''NPR|National Public Review'' also discusses the books development - "Wolfe has hinted at the idea before, notably in a 2006 lecture called "The Human Beast."http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/06/19/193406485/book-news-kim-jong-un-reportedly-gave-mein-kampf-as-gifts
— User:Coolabahapple, 10:59, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
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