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Hell was nothing like Richard Nixon thought it would be, not that he had thought much about it when he was ‘upside.’ That was the term everyone here used to describe the world in which they had once lived. It was an ironic reference to the ancient and erroneous belief that Hell was subterranean. As far as anyone could figure out, it wasn’t anywhere in relation to earth. But in every other way it was undeniably the ‘downside,’ so the term stuck.
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This text was written in 1999 and first published as: “Nixon in Hell,” ch. 2. (pp. 1–13) The Tragic Vision of Politics: Ethics, Interests, and Orders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). ISBN: 9780521534857. The permission to republish this text was granted on 24 June 2015 by Clair Taylor, Senior Publishing Assistant, Legal Services, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
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Lebow, R.N. (2016). Nixon in Hell. In: Lebow, R. (eds) Richard Ned Lebow: Essential Texts on Classics, History, Ethics, and International Relations. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40024-2_5
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