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The Martians

The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America

David Baron

2025

Liveright Publishing Corporation

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Book Review

The Man Who Wanted to Believe in Life on Mars

The Mars craze is a case study in twisting evidence and defying facts.

by Cass R. Sunstein via The New Republic on November 24, 2025
Book Review

The Long History of Life on Mars

A new book explores how Americans came to believe in an advanced Martian civilization at the turn of the twentieth century.

by Jon Allsop via The New Yorker on August 29, 2025

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