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Book SynopsisPeter Gay's first volume of his two-volume work,
The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, won a National Book Award, and his bestselling
Freud: A Life for Our Time was finalist for the National Book Award. His other numerous works include studies on the eighteenth century,
Voltaire's Politics and
The Party of Humanity, and essays on the writing of history,
Style in History and
Art and Act. The recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, and Overseas fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge, and the Heineken Prize for Historical Study, Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University.
Trade Review[Freud] was possessed of exceptional literary gifts. There can be no question that he was a great writer: to read him is to be beguiled by him... His influence on all of us was enormous, and it would be as impossible to return to a pre-Freudian way of thinking as to return to a pre-heliocentric theory of the solar system * The Times *
