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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?
Gore Vidal
Self - Debater
William F. Buckley
Self - Debater
Dick Cavett
Self - Talk Show Host
Noam Chomsky
Self
Todd Gitlin
Self - Media Studies, Columbia University
Brooke Gladstone
Self - Host, NPR's On the Media
Richard Wald
Self - Former President, NBC News
William Sheehan
Self - Former President, ABC News
Frank Rich
Self - Writer, New York Magazine
Sam Tanenhaus
Self - Biographer, William F. Buckley Jr.
Patricia Buckley
Self - Buckley's Wife
Lee Edwards
Self - Historian, The Heritage Foundation
Reid Buckley
Self - Buckley's Brother
Linda Bridges
Self - Buckley's Personal Assistant
Fred Kaplan
Self - Author, Gore Vidal: A Biography
Matt Tyrnauer
Self - Vidal's Editor & Friend
Sam Donaldson
Self - Correspondent, ABC News
Howard K. Smith
Self - Anchor, ABC News
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