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Peter Gay

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Gender Male
Death9 years ago
Date of birth June 20,1923
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Berlin
Germany
Date of died May 12,2015
DiedManhattan
New York City
New York
United States
Spouse Ruth Gay
Job Professor
Author
Historian
Education Columbia University
University of Denver
Awards Geschwister-Scholl-Preis
National Book Award for History and Biography (Nonfiction)
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for History
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The Enlightenment: An Interpretation
Freud: A Life For Our Time
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy
Weimar culture: the outsider as insider
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud
The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud
My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
Education of the senses
Style in history
Freud for Historians
The tender passion
Party of Humanity
The Naked Heart
Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914
Why the Romantics Matter
A Godless Jew
Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks
Reading Freud: Explorations & Entertainments
Voltaire's politics
Mozart: A Life
Freud, Jews, and other Germans
Mozart
Savage Reprisals
The dilemma of democratic socialism
Historians at Work
Art and Act: On Causes in History--Manet, Gropius, Mondrian
A loss of mastery
Deism; an anthology
Mozart: A Penguin Life
Schnitzler's Century: Love, Hate and Privacy in the Victorian Bourgeoisie
The Bourgeois Experience: The tender passion
Modern Europe:
Age of Enlightenment
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Peter Gay was a German-American historian, educator and author. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers. Gay received the American Historical Association's Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2004.

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