OK :the improbable story of America's greatest word
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Oxford ; New York
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Oxford University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 210 p. ; 19 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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Includes index
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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Allan Metcalf
CONTENTS NOTE
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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