INDEPENDENT LENS
Best of Enemies

Air date: Mon., Oct. 3, 9:00 pm

 

In 1968, Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. changed TV news forever with their explosive political debates. Live and unscripted, conservative Buckley and leftist Vidal riveted viewers as a new era in contentious public discourse was born.

 

Tags: debate, discourse, Gore Vidal, ideology, intellectual, narrative, neoconservative, public, spectacle, William F. Buckley

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