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The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America by David Baron

Hardcover – Liveright – August 2025 – 241 pages

Recounts early twentieth-century Mars mania, following Percival Lowell’s rise and fall as he championed the belief in intelligent Martians, revealing how scientific speculation, public fascination, and cultural projection transformed the red planet into both a symbol of hope and a mirror of human ambition.