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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: typewriter and the guillotine
    sub title: an American journalist, a German serial killer, and Paris on the eve of WWII
  name:
    name part: Braude, Mark
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (382 p.)
  abstract: "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"--
  note: Mark Braude.
  note: Description based upon print version of record.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: Murder
    topic: Press coverage
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Weidmann, Eugen
      name part: 1908-1939
  subject:
    topic: Serial murderers
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Flanner, Janet
      name part: 1892-1978
  subject:
    topic: Women journalists
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
  subject:
    geographic: Paris (France)
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Tueurs en série
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
  subject:
    topic: Meurtre
    topic: Couverture de presse
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
  subject:
    topic: Femmes journalistes
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
  subject:
    topic: Editors
  subject:
    topic: Serial Killers
  subject:
    topic: Murder
  subject:
    topic: TRUE CRIME
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  classification: HV6535.F8
  classification: 364.15230944/361
  related item:
    title info:
      title: The Typewriter and the Guillotine
    name:
      name part: Braude, Mark
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing,c2026
  identifier: 9781538767139 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1538767139
  identifier: 75F54717-4BAC-4A41-93F0-41D8DD6A158E OverDrive, Inc.
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 260110
    record change date: 20260221223657.6
    record identifier: in00005692248
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng