OK :the improbable story of America's greatest word
Oxford ; New York
Oxford University Press
2011
xii, 210 p. ; 19 cm.
Includes index
Allan Metcalf
Introduction: the ABCs of OK -- A saturday morning in Boston -- 0481: Old kinderhook is OK -- Hoax: Andrew Jackson's misspelling -- Aesthetics: the look and sound of OK -- False origins -- The business of OK -- O.K. clubs -- The literary OK -- Oklahoma is OK -- Okey-dokey -- Modern OK literature -- The Practical OK -- The world and England -- The lifemanship OK -- The psychological OK -- The new American philosophy