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Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal (also know as Best of Enemies) full movie is released on Jul 31, 2015. Watch Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal online - the English Documentary movie from United States , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $892,802. Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal is directed by Robert Gordon,Morgan Neville and created by Robert Gordon with Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley.
'Best of Enemies' is a documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. 'Best of Enemies' delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, 'What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?'
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As Self - Media Studies, Columbia University
As Self - Host, NPR's On the Media
As Self - Former President, NBC News
As Self - Former President, ABC News
As Self - Biographer, William F. Buckley Jr.
As Self - Buckley's Wife
As Self - Historian, The Heritage Foundation
