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.
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.
What defines an American? Is it the love of liberty, the pursuit of justice, the urge to invent, the desire for wealth, the drive to explore, the quest for spiritual values? The paradox of the American identity is that although the United States is a melting pot of many different traditions, motives, and ideals, there are nevertheless distinctive qualities that define the American character.
"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."—Washington Post A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as "one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work." This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and character from the time of the American Revolution to the present. From it, there emerges Fiedler's once scandalous—now increasingly accepted—judgment that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death.
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American FortuneEmpty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance.
Between 1861 and 1865, the clash of the greatest armies the Western hemisphere had ever seen turned small towns, little-known streams, and obscure meadows in the American countryside into names we will always remember. In those great battles streams ran red with blood, and the United States was truly born.
![American Identity [Audio Lectures]](http://englishtips.org/uploads/posts/2009-06/1245670837_new-world-trade-center-2.jpg "American Identity [Audio Lectures]")
![American Civil War [Audio Lectures]](http://englishtips.org/uploads/posts/2009-06/1245274364_storming-fort-wagner.jpg "American Civil War [Audio Lectures]")
