Bibliograph

Best of enemies, Independent Lens ; Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media present in association with ITVS ; a Tremolo/Media Ranch production ; executive producers, Julie Goldman, Clif Phillips ; produced and directed by Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon ; Sandbar, LLC

Type

Label

Best of enemies, Independent Lens ; Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media present in association with ITVS ; a Tremolo/Media Ranch production ; executive producers, Julie Goldman, Clif Phillips ; produced and directed by Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon ; Sandbar, LLC

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for some sexual content, nudity and language

Main title

Best of enemies

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

923775326

Responsibility statement

Independent Lens ; Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media present in association with ITVS ; a Tremolo/Media Ranch production ; executive producers, Julie Goldman, Clif Phillips ; produced and directed by Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon ; Sandbar, LLC

Runtime

Summary

In the summer of 1968 television news changed forever. Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each other's political ideologies were dangerous for America. Like rounds in a heavyweight battle, they pummeled out policy and personal insult--their explosive exchanges devolving into vitrolic name-calling. Live an unscripted, they kept viewers riveted. Ratings for ABC News skyrocketed, and a new era in public discourse was born

Technique

live action

Classification