“I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hands. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. . . . They were Commies . . . red sons-of-bitches who should have died long ago. . . .”

—Mickey Spillane, Mike Hammer in One Lonely Night, 1951; quoted in A People’s History of the United States; 1492-Present by Howard Zinn, 1999.