R.I.P. Peter Gay...

looking for a piccy of Sigmund Freud when I found that one biographer Peter Gay had passed.
Gays books are eminently readable and tell convincing truths.

Gay is like Ralph Linton who was refused admittance to Columbia Anthropology school because FRanz Boas saw him in uniform  straight after WW11 and declared him a militarist and Boas' word was enough to convict anyone in those days.
hmmmmmm
Gays crime was to discover that Gibbon never wrote The Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire but that Gibbon had cribbed it all from an obscure French monk.

there ya go.
you get that on the big jobs.