Tom wolfe, one of America's best-known writers, has been skewering the pompous and the self-obsessed for five decades. In his bestseller The Bonfire of the Vanities, he took on greed and ambition among New York bond traders. His latest book is The Kingdom of Speech. On the surface, it is about the struggle to understand the origin of language, but you soon discover that it is also a tale of two heroic outsiders who come up against the dead weight of the academic establishment. This is familiar Wolfe territory and you know which side he is on.
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