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Best of Enemies

A documentary about the mythical series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr.. Intended on the topics of their day, these experiences that were volatile and vitriolic came to define the era of community discourse signaling that our media landscape's bigbang period when spectacle trumped content and debate substituted substance. Best of Enemies delves to the monogamous biographies of both these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the language and also the theater of their debates, begging the question,"What's tv done to the way we talk politics in our democracy today?"

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