OK - The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word

OK.  WHY THIS   BOOK?  STRANGELY  ENOUGH,   EVEN THOUGH OK is by far the most successful American creation in language, as well as nearly the strangest, it hasn't had a book of its own. So here it is.

This is a book about OK. And OK truly deserves a book of its own, not only because it is different from anything else in our language but because it is so important. OK is a meme that has burrowed deeply into the way we think and act. In fact, those two letters encapsulate a whole view of life—the American philosophy, if two letters can be said to embody a philosophy, and if Americans can be said to have one.