Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award

Spooked! How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America

In this conflicted era of fake news and alternative facts, what could be more timely than an account of Orson Welles’s famous Halloween-Eve radio broadcast that convinced much of America that the Martians were invading? Filled with period photos, art reproductions, newspaper headlines, and quotations.

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