Charles F Mcgovern

Biographic Data

ID1283895
NAMECharles F Mcgovern
GIVEN NAMESCharles F
FAMILY NAMEMcgovern
SIGNATUREMCGOVERN C F
AFFILIATIONSNational Museum of American History
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS20
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX2

  • Joel Dinerstein. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America

    Open AccessCharles F McgovernARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    Joel Dinerstein wastes no time in The Origins of Cool in Postwar America. From the outset he makes clear that “cool” was central to the making of American life after World War II. Cool was a moral code and an emotional disposition, a new mythos of American culture. He contends that cool was “authenticity, independence, integrity and nonconformity . . . a resistant mode of being in the world” (4–5). This sprawling, deeply researched account offers…

  • Remaking the American Patient

    Charles F McgovernARTICLEBulletin of the history of medicine2017

    Reviewed by: Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers by Nancy Tomes Charles F. McGovern Nancy Tomes. Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xviii + 538 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-1-4696-2277-4). Millions of Americans greeted the Affordable Care Act of 2010 with euphoria, which…

  • Hope for America

    Charles F McgovernARTICLEJournal of American History2012

    Hope for America: Performers, Politics, and Pop Culture.” Bob Hope Gallery of American Entertainment, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Washington, D.C. http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/hopeforamerica/. Permanent exhibition, opened June 11, 2010. 1,300 sq. ft. Alan Gevinson, exhibition curator; William Jacobs, chief, Interpretive Programs Office; Betsy Nahum-Miller, exhibition director; Kimberli Curry, exhibition director; Deborah Durbe…

  • Image Makers

    Charles F Mcgovern, Charles Mcgovern et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 2

    In their daily operations—the relentless quest for the new story or the strategic edge in issue oriented campaigning—modern media and politics subject citizens to an unending barrage of symbols, images, information, and arguments. The bewildering maze of claims, counterclaims, and imagery propagated by thousands of institutions becomes impassable, and Americans are left to fend for themselves enlightened, confused, outraged, inspired, or frustrat…

  • Elvis Culture

    Charles F Mcgovern, Erika DoARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 13

    Journal Article Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, & Image. By Erika Doss. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. xvi, 289 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-7006-0948-2.) Get access Charles F. McGovern Charles F. McGovern National Museum of American History, Washington, D. C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Page 313, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675079 Published: 01 J…

  • Getting and Spending

    Jacqueline K Dirks, Susan Strasser et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2000Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Getting and Spending: European and American Consumer Societies in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, and Matthias Judt. (Washington and New York: German Historical Institute and Cambridge University Press, 1998. xiv, 477 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-521-62237-9. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-521-62694-3.) Get access Jacqueline K. Dirks Jacqueline K. Dirks Reed College, Portland, Oregon Search for other works by t…

  • Getting and Spending

    Gary Cross, Susan Strasser et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1999

  • Vance Packard & American Social Criticism

    Charles F Mcgovern, Charles Mcgovern et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Vance Packard & American Social Criticism. By Daniel Horowitz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. xx, 375 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2141-1.) Get access Charles McGovern Charles McGovern National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1646–1647, https://doi.org/10.2307/…

  • Soft Soap, Hard Sell

    Charles F Mcgovern, Charles Mcgovern et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement. By Vincent Vinikas. (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1992. xx + 168 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8138-1788-9.) Get access Charles McGovern Charles McGovern National Museum of American History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1639–1640, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080300…

  • Real People and the True Folk

    Open AccessCharles F Mcgovern, Barbara Franco et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1990Cited by: 1

  • Media, Culture, and History

    Charles F Mcgovern, Susan J Douglas et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1988