For better or for worse, we’ll never again see television quite like that documented in the compelling “Best of Enemies,” which returns us to the summer of 1968 and the historic series of televised ...

By the mid-1960s, the presidential conventions had turned into full-fledged TV events, but ABC was dead last in the ratings. In order to spice up their convention coverage, ABC executives invited two ...

William F Buckley Jr was, above all else, a debater. He’s perhaps best known today for jousting with the liberal writer Gore Vidal in 1968 during the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.

Gore Vidal (1925-2012) is one of those rare but regularly appearing types on the U.S. literary landscape who tried to make a wholesome contribution to the life of the nation, but having a classicist's ...

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