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Michael O’Malley’s witty, insightful Face Value traces the American quest for a stable source of value in a society that prized freedom.

Michael O’Malley’s witty, insightful Face Value traces the American quest for a stable source of value in a society that prized freedom. Through deft analysis of a wide range of sources, O'Malley shows that arguments over money and arguments over race have had much in common, and indeed, have often intersected in the United States in surprising and disturbing. ways-even now. Most important is O’Malley’s contention that the monetary chaos of the nineteenth century, which has bewildered so many students of American history, turned whiteness into a crucial sign of individual worth.

Like race, money is bound up in questions of identity and worth, each a kind of shorthand for the different values of two similar things. O’Malley illuminates how these two socially constructed hierarchies are deeply rooted in American anxieties about authenticity and difference

Like race, money is bound up in questions of identity and worth, each a kind of shorthand for the different values of two similar things. O’Malley illuminates how these two socially constructed hierarchies are deeply rooted in American anxieties about authenticity and difference

That is the new book from Michael O’Malley, a colleague of mine in the history department.

That is the new book from Michael O’Malley, a colleague of mine in the history department. The heroic individualism many libertarians imagine requires a self freed from all social constraints, but at the same time founded in nature - in natural rights and natural talents.

Michael O'Malley, associate professor of history, has published Face Value: The Entwined Histories of Money and Race in America. Like race, money is bound up in questions of identity and worth, each a kind of shorthand for the different values of two similar things

Like race, money is bound up in questions of identity and worth, each a kind of shorthand for the different values of two similar things. In this compelling work of cultural history, O’Malley interprets a stunning array of historical sources to evaluate the comingling of ideas about monetary value and social distinctions. More than just a history, Face Value offers us a new way of thinking about the present culture of coded racism, gold fetishism, and economic uncertainty. O’Malley illuminates how these two socially constructed hierarchies are deeply rooted in American anxieties about authenticity and difference

Face Value is a book lively on every page-the number of pages, therefore, is regrettably short.

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