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The typewriter and the guillotine : an American journalist, a German serial killer, and Paris on the eve of WWII / Mark Braude.
"In 1925, the Indianapolis-born Janet Flanner took an assignment to write a regular 'Letter from Paris' for a lighthearted humor magazine called The New Yorker, started by some friends in New York. She'd come to Paris to with dreams of writing about "Beauty with a Capital B." Her employer, self-consciously apolitical, sought only breezy reports on French art and culture. But as she woke to the frightening signs of rising extremism, economic turmoil, and widespread discontent in Europe, Flanner ignored her editor's directives, reinventing herself, her assignment, and The New Yorker in the process. While working tirelessly to alert American readers to the dangers of the Third Reich, including producing one of the first detailed profiles of Hitler in an American publication, Flanner became gripped by the disturbing crimes of a man who embodied all of the darkness she was being forced to confront. Eugen Weidmann, a German con-man who killed six people in and around Paris in the late 1930s, and who was last man to be publicly executed in France -- mere weeks before the outbreak of WWII. Flanner covered his crimes, capture, and highly politicized trial, seeing the case as a guiding metaphor through which to understand the tumultuous years through which she'd just passed and to prepare herself for the dangers to come. The Typewriter and The Guillotine offers the personal and professional coming-of-age story of an indomitable journalist set against a glamorous, high-stakes backdrop -- a tightly-coiled drama full of romance and intrigue"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781538767115 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xi, 415 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grand Central, 2026.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The last public execution in France -- It is all I have, darling -- The diagnosis -- An oversized minnow learning how to swim -- A young man alone on a mountaintop -- Hotel Bonaparte -- True north strong and free -- Becoming Genêt -- Deported -- Smoked pork, sweet cabbage, and Moselle wine -- The chauffeur -- Cracking up -- The Stavisky affair -- The librarian -- Hell on wheels -- She doesn't do very well on the slighter subjects -- The business -- Not who won, naturally -- The crossing -- All I am trying to do is weather events -- The villa -- Everything's just fine! -- An American ballet teacher in Paris -- Our moving and tormented era -- The spree -- To Bluebeard's cell -- A small and sinister European entanglement -- I am the wound and the knife -- The last middle-westerner -- He has abnormalities -- Itsy-bitsy anti-Nazi me -- A tour of the Caverne des Brigands -- History looks queer when you're standing close to it -- The cello -- Nothing to write except hatred for all -- A judgment at Versailles -- A letter from Perpignan -- The gospel of the murderer -- The blood in his veins and the climate of his days -- I hope to Heaven mom doesn't see it -- Fantastic and unreal as it may seem -- This miserable beautiful world -- Thanks for money. What a strange war. -- Paris, Germany -- Coda. Harsh intelligence and beautiful spoils. |
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