Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Peter Gay

Born: June 20, 1923
Died: May 12, 2015 (aged 91)
Bio: Peter Gay was an 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.
Known for:
- Freud: A Life For Our Time (1988)
- Modernism: The Lure of Heresy (2007)
- Weimar culture: the outsider as insider (1968)