The Martians spotlights that volatile little corner of the American imagination where persistent obsessions — fueled by over-exuberant media — take hold and root. David Baron's briskly entertaining social history homes in on the trio of decades framing the turn of the last century, chronicling the rise and fall of a stubborn belief that sociable aliens were gazing on us across the frigid darkness and longing to say, "Howdy, neighbor."
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