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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jacques Debierue"
<matrxtech@y...> wrote:
>
> Could you elaborate on this comment on the
fifties?
Sure. The fifties in the US were a time of paranoia, largely
due to the Cold War and the Red Scare. Some of this was
well-founded, like the threat of terrorism today. And like
today's terrorism scare, it generated a lot of hysteria and
anger, a lot of times unfocused. Mike Hammer fit those times
perfectly, acting out a national urge to just haul off and
club the source of all everyone's problems. Nowehre is this
more obvious (or the source of the anger and paranoia more
blatant) than in ONE LONELY NIGHT, where Hammer simply takes
out a town full of Commies, enjoying every bloody moment of
it.
Now I could say the same about Race Williams, but Race is a
product of the Jazz Age. Then again, it was also the
Prohibition Era, and with gang violence escalating (or
perceived to be. It was more spectacular than prevalent.),
Race was a vigilante for his times.
Jim Winter
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