The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2025. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Fine, fresh, unused copy in equally fine, bright dust jacket. Hardcover. 321 pp with index, bibliography, and black and white photographs. David Baron explores the mania surrounding the conspiracy theory about life on the planet Mars in the early 1900s, and how the red planet symbolizes our civilization's tendency to project hope onto unknown subjects and answers we may end up finding in ourselves. Fine / fine. Item #E35881
ISBN: 9781324090663
Price: $21.95
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