CONTENTS

Preface

1. Introduction: The ABCs of OK

2. A Saturday Morning in Boston

3. 1840: Old Kinderhook Is OK

4. Hoax: Andrew Jackson’s Misspelling

5. Aesthetics: The Look and Sound of OK

6. False Origins

7. The Business of OK

8. O.K. Clubs.

9. The Literary OK

10. Oklahoma Is OK

11. Okey-Dokey

12. Modern OK Literature

13. The Practical OK

14. The World—and England

15. The Lifemanship OK

16. The Psychological OK

17. The American Philosophy

Index