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MARK BRAUDE is a cultural historian and the author of KIKI MAN RAY: ART, LOVE, AND RIVALRY IN 1920S PARIS (W.W. Norton, Summer 2022), THE INVISIBLE EMPEROR: NAPOLEON ON ELBA FROM EXILE TO ESCAPE (Penguin Press, 2018), and MAKING MONTE CARLO: A HISTORY OF SPECULATION AND SPECTACLE (Simon & Schuster, 2016). His books have been translated into several languages.

Mark was a 2020 visiting fellow at the American Library in Paris and was named a 2017 NEH Public Scholar. He is the recipient of grants from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts, the de Groot Foundation, and others. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) and a lecturer in Stanford’s departme ...more

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	The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII 3.71 avg rating — 1,032 ratings — published 2026 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Everything that is happening in Europe now is happening according to the characters, rather than the politics, of a few leading men. What is taking place here is psychology, not history. History will come later.”
― Mark Braude, The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII

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“History looks queer when you’re standing close to it,” she wrote from Budapest,”
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“People remain pilgrims; they love to love, they yearn to follow, to believe, to put trust in. It’s a human necessity which democracy, ironically, has deprived them of, in seeking to serve everyone.”
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