Best of Enemies
A documentary about the legendary set of nationwide debates in 1968 between 2 great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr.. Intended these experiences found identify the modern era of community discourse signaling that the bigbang period of our media landscape when spectacle trumped debate and content substituted substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of both these two great thinkers, and luxuriates in the speech and also the theater of their debates, begging the question,"What has television done to how we discuss politics inside our democracy today?"
Released: 2015-07-31
Duration: 87
min
Country:
United States of America