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Best of Enemies

A documentary on the famed 1968 debates between two prominent public thinkers, leftist Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley Jr. 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 digs into the entwined backgrounds of these two great philosophers and revels in the vocabulary and theater of their fights, posing the question, "How has television changed the way we talk politics in our democracy today?"

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